Clyde Edwin SEIDEL, Petitioner-Appellee, v. W.A. MERKLE, Warden, Respondent-Appellant

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• holding that petitioner was prejudiced where “trial counsel failed to conduct any investigation at all into his client’s psychiatric history and therefore neglected to pursue a potentially successful defense” at the guilt phase
• holding that petitioner was prejudiced where “trial counsel failed to conduct any 5 investigation at all into his client’s psychiatric history and therefore neglected to pursue a potentially 6 successful defense” at the guilt phase
• noting that counsel has a duty to make adequate investigations into a mental-state defense where there are abundant signs that a client suffers from mental illness
• noting that counsel has' a duty to make adequate investigations into a mental-state defense where there are abundant signs that a client suffers from mental illness
• finding prejudice where counsel completely failed to investigate his client’s mental health despite abundant signs in the record that his client suffered from mental illness
• finding prejudice where counsel completely failed to investigate his client’s mental health despite abundant signs in the record that his client suffered from mental illness

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