At the post-conviction proceeding, Coleman offered testimony, inter alia, that his mother was a gambler and a prostitute who ??starved, beat & hustled?? her children. (P-C.R. at 3683, 3793-94.) Coleman spent most of his childhood in conditions of squalor, living with a grandmother who practiced voodoo and who told Coleman that his mother had discarded him in a trash can when he was born. (P-C.R. a