Opinion ID: 1288147
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Heading: Evaluation of the Combined Effects of Counsel's Deficiencies

Text: In the discussion above, this Court has set forth several aspects of trial counsel's performance that it has found to have been or has assumed to have been deficient, and the Court has discussed the prejudice stemming from those individual deficiencies. Considering now the combined effect of all of those deficiencies, this Court concludes as a matter of law that the absence of those deficiencies would not in reasonable probability have changed the result at trial. Holsey, 281 Ga. at 812, n. 1, 642 S.E.2d 56. Accordingly, Terrell's overall ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim, including the sub-parts addressed in both the Warden's appeal and Terrell's cross-appeal, must fail.