LUCERO, Circuit Judge. Convicted in the Oklahoma courts of the first-degree murder of Jimmy DeWayne Thompson and sentenced to death, Brian Spears and Dudley Powell each filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition seeking relief from their convictions and sentences. 1 After concluding that photographs introduced during the second stage of trial rendered the sentencing…
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