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NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200U.S.321, 337.

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McKINNEY v. ARIZONA

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA No. 18–1109. Argued December 11, 2019—Decided February 25, 2020 An Arizona jury convicted petitioner James McKinney of two counts of first-degree murder. The trial judge found aggravating circumstances for both murders, weighed the aggravating and mitigating circum- stances, and sentenced McKinney to death. Nearly 20 years later, the Ninth Circuit held on habeas review that the Arizona courts violated Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455U.S.104, by failing to properly consider as relevant mitigating evidence McKinney’s posttraumatic stress disor- der. McKinney’s case th