Anthony Hall v. Odie Washington, Director

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an attorney’s performance is deficient when “a defendant provides the names of possible mitigation witnesses” and the attorney does not “determine for himself whether their testimony would be helpful”
• holding trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of the appellant's good conduct in prison
• emphasizing that “[i]n the context of a capital sentencing hearing, it is particularly important that counsel not be allowed to shirk her responsibility”
• reasoning that an appellate court need not reweigh aggravating and mitigating factors when the defendant has failed to prove that the sentencer actually considered the invalid factors
• sentencing judge commented that he was \[f]aced with `all the aggravating factors * * * stacked against the defendant'\
• sentencing judge commented that he was “[fjaced with ‘all the aggravating factors *** stacked against the defendant’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).