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Sixth Circuit· 2/3/2011

Couch v. Booker

Citations

  • 632 F.3d 241
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 2105
  • 2011 WL 320863

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding trial counsel ineffective for failing to take “simple steps” to prepare to rebut the State’s causation evidence
  • finding trial counsel ineffective in part for failing to present expert testimony refuting the State’s theory on cause of death
  • state court unreasonably rejected habeas petitioner’s argument that counsel should have investigated causation defense where counsel ignored readily available evidence
  • counsel was deficient for failing to investigate alternate causes of death, where evidence of those alternate causes was in the record
  • “How can one exercise reasonable professional judgment about whether to stop a causation-based investigation before reading the key report that might support it?”
  • “It is particularly unreasonable to fail to track down readily available and likely useful evidence that a client himself asks his counsel to obtain.” (citation omitted)

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Judges: Moore, Sutton, Friedman

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