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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Sparks finds the lower court properly sentenced defendant in this matter where defendant stabbed three people, killing two of them and permanently injuring another after a confrontation. Defendant was convicted on two specifications of premeditated murder and one specification of attempted premeditated murder and sentenced by the trial court to death. On appeal, the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his convictions, but found evidence of ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failing to investigate some mitigating evidence. Though it found no prejudice, defendant’s sentence was reevaluated and changed to life without the possibility of parole, a reduction in grade, reprimand and dishonorable discharge. The instant court finds no error in the lower court’s findings. Affirmed.