Carl William Montgomery v. Dale Petersen

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• concluding that trial counsel’s decision to offer alibi testimony in the defendant’s burglary case in one jurisdiction, but not for a second burglary charge allegedly occurring on the same day in another jurisdiction, constituted a deficiency
• characterizing disinterested alibi witness who defense counsel unreasonably failed to identify and locate as ‘‘extraordinarily significant’’ when all twelve alibi wit- nesses were either relatives or close friends of peti- tioner
• \the jury might well have viewed the otherwise impeachable testimony of the [family alibi] witnesses who were presented at the ... trial in a different light had the jury also heard the testimony of this disinterested witness\
• stressing importance of independent witnesses

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