Chris Anthony Luchenburg v. Sewell B. Smith, Warden, Maryland Correctional Institution Attorney General of the State of Maryland

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• holding that jurors are presumed to follow the court’s instructions
• finding failure to request mandatory jury instruction constituted ineffective assistance of counsel and stating that “counsel made no tactical ‘choice,’ unless a failure to become informed of the law affecting his client can be so considered.”
• finding failure to request mandatory jury instruction constituted ineffective assistance of counsel and stating that “counsel made no tactical ‘choice,’ unless a failure to become informed of the law affecting his client can be so considered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).