Fifth Circuit· 8/17/1994

Bryant v. Scott

Citations

28 F.3d 1411
1994 WL 399930

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holding counsel’s failure to investigate alibi witness and eyewitnesses to the crime amounted to constitutionally deficient performance
finding that counsel's \failure to interview eyewitnesses to the crime was constitutionally deficient performance\
finding that counsel’s “failure to interview eyewitnesses to the crime was constitutionally deficient performance”
“assuming that Moore’s cross examination was effective, that is not to say it could not have been improved by prior investigation.”
finding ineffective assistance where counsel failed to interview a witness who admitted to committing the crime and maintained that the defendant was not involved
noting that even if the lawyer had learned of the alibi witnesses on the first day of trial, he “nevertheless should have contacted the witnesses and made his record to the trial court as to the significance of the alibi and the fact that it was newly discovered”

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Judges: Garwood, Garza, Nowlin

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