Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• stating attorneys’ performance fell below objectively reasonable assistance where attorneys failed to consider and present obvious credible defense and instead presented defense that was “barely believable at best” and undocumented
• stating attorneys' performance fell below objectively reasonable assistance where attorneys failed to consider and present obvious credible defense and instead presented defense that was \barely believable at best\ and undocumented
• “[I]t is unnecessary to add a separate layer of harmless-error analysis to an evaluation of whether a petitioner in a habeas case has presented a constitutionally significant claim for ineffective assistance of counsel”
• defendant was prejudiced by counsel’s failure to present evidence at the penalty phase of the defendant’s paranoid schizophrenia and reliance on anti-psychotic drugs

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