Commonwealth v. Malloy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant was prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to present mitigating evidence, and emphasizing that the Commonwealth pursued a single aggravating circumstance
• holding that evidence of the defendant’s drug-related activity was admissible to show motive
• explaining that our focus is on whether the investigation supporting counsel’s decision not to introduce mitigating evidence was itself reasonable
• explaining that “ ‘strategic choices made after less than complete investigation are reasonable precisely to the extent that reasonable professional judgments supported the limitations on investigation’ ”
• holding evidence of the defendant’s drug activity admissible to demonstrate motive for killing the victim
• determining that photographs of murder victim’s gunshot wounds to his head were not inflammatory where they were not “unnecessarily gruesome”

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