Benjamin Wai Silva v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, San Quentin State Prison

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• holding that counsel has duty to “try to educate or dissuade” the defendant about the consequences of actions
• recognizing that limited cross-examination may be reasonable where more extensive examination could have rendered a witness more sympathetic
• concluding that trial counsel’s failure to cross-examine an eyewitness about a medical condition that rendered him highly receptive to suggestion was a reasonable strategic decision
• holding that where individual deficiencies may not by themselves meet the Strickland prejudice standard, they may when considered cumulatively constitute sufficient prejudice to grant the writ
• recognizing that cumulative prejudice 22 analysis applies to ineffective assistance of counsel claim
• recognizing \the breadth of a criminal defendant's constitutional protection against his attorney's failure to investigate mitigating evidence when defending his client against a capital sentence\

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