David Dewayne Johnson v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

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• holding that the Strickland test should be used to evaluate an ineffectiveness claim against an attorney with bi-polar disorder
• declining to adopt a per se presumption of ineffective assistance of counsel when trial counsel suffers from mental illness (citing Pilchakv. Camper, 935 F.2d 145, 149 (8th Cir. 1991))
• declining to adopt a per se presumption of ineffective assistance of counsel when trial counsel suffers from mental illness (citing Pilchak v. Camper, 935 F.2d 145 , 149 (8th Cir. 1991) )
• “[T]he petitioner must prove both that his attorney acted under an actual conflict of interest, as opposed to just a potential one, and that the conflict of interest actually affected the adequacy of the representation.”
• counsel suffering from mental illness

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