053431P.pdf   07/22/2008  Jeffery William Paul  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3431
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Hot Springs   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Beam and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. District court did not err in denying habeas
   relief on Paul's claim that his attorneys provided ineffective assistance of
   counsel by failing to investigate and present evidence of his mental,
   medical and physical history; viewing the evidence and information
   proffered in connection with the claim in the context of the trial record as
   a whole, Paul has failed to show prejudice from counsel's actions as 
   there is no reasonable probability that the jury would not have selected
   the sentence of death if trial counsel had gathered and presented the
   additional evidence; district court did not err in denying claim that trial
   counsel were ineffective in failing to pursue his allegations that he was
   incompetent to stand trial; Paul's alleged incompetence did not bar him
   from presenting his Sixth Amendment claims in the habeas proceedings,
   and the district court's finding that Paul was competent to proceed in his
   habeas was neither clearly erroneous nor prejudicial.