Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections

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• counsel ineffective where he failed to make any investigation whatsoever and \abdicated all responsibility for defending his client in the sentencing phase\
• '[I]t is only after a full investigation of all the mitigating circumstances that counsel can make an informed, tactical decision about which information would be the most helpful to the client's case'
• '[I]t is only after a full investigation of all the mitigating circumstances that counsel can make an informed, tactical decision about which information would be the most helpful to the client's case'
• '[I]t is only after a full investigation of all of the mitigating circumstances that counsel can make an informed, tactical decision about which information would be the most helpful to the client's case'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).