Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union v. Murdock

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel was ineffective where he conducted no investigation into the defendant’s psychiatric history even though health records revealed that the defendant had been born prematurely and had been diagnosed with mental illness
• stating that “we must be especially cautious in protecting a defendant’s right to effective counsel at a capital sentencing hearing”
• finding prejudice where defense counsel failed to present any mitigating evidence at all
• prosecutor pointed out defendant’s failure to introduce psychiatric testimony supporting insanity claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).