and paint the outside; she had never seen him clean the truck before. She noted, however, that when she went out to the truck as he was cleaning it, she did not see blood or anything else unusual. Ellis also testified that Donnell carried a knife and that she observed him when police told him his niece and her two sons had been murdered, and he said "okay" without emotion.
Ellis's testimony offered strong circumstantial evidence to corroborate the defense theory that Donnell was the murderer. Although the significance of that evidence is tempered by the fact that Donnell exhibited no injuries, and no bloody clothes of Donnell were ever found, jurists of reason could debate whether the failure to present Ellis's testimony caused prejudice.
Jurists of reason could alsoit was and that the spots were caused in the manner envisioned by the report, the report does not establish that the murderer would have had to contend with two live victims in the room at the same time.

Forensic evidence showed that Twila was strangled before she was beaten and thus could have been unconscious at the time Elwin was also in the room. Finally, even if the murderer would have had to contend with two victims, it is not evident that Skinner was too intoxicated to have done it. The defense's toxicologist admitted that, according to his assessment, an ordinary person in Skinner's position should not have been able to do most of the things he did on the night of the murder, such as walking four