Cooper v. Secretary, Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• granting habeas corpus relief based upon ineffective assistance of counsel at penalty phase even though defendant’s own psychologist diagnosed the defendant with antisocial personality disorder
• granting habeas corpus relief based upon ineffective assistance of counsel at penalty phase even though defendant’s own psychologist diagnosed the defendant with antisocial personality disorder
• “The question under Strickland is whether . . . trial counsel conducted an adequate background investigation or reasonably decided to end the background investigation when [they] did.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).