Opinion ID: 1649620
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 26

Heading: Failure to present additional psychiatric/psychological experts.

Text: ¶ 32. This related issue contends that the failure to investigate resulted in a failure to present testimony on the effects of a deprived childhood, poverty, mental illness, racism and deprivation. As a practical matter, trial counsel called Little and several other witnesses in seeking to convince the jury not to impose the death penalty. Brown makes no showing that additional expert or psychiatric testimony would have resulted in a different sentence. ¶ 33. In Chase v. State, 699 So.2d 521, 528 (Miss.1997), this Court found: that counsel was not ineffective despite his failure to further investigate psychological reports which gave some indication that Cole had a low intelligence quotient but did not give the exact figure. This Court found that evidence of Cole's minimal education, illiteracy and deprived childhood was made known to the jury, and under these circumstances there was no error in counsel's actions under Strickland v. Washington. Cole, 666 So.2d at 776-77. This issue is without merit.