On a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, the movant needed to demonstrate that the counsel’s poor performance affected the outcome of the criminal trial, which involved deliberation. The movant claimed that counsel could have challenged this element by presenting evidence of a mental defect that compelled the movant to shoot a police officer, but this evidence was too vague and did not provide a reasonable likelihood of a different verdict given the strong evidence of guilt.
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