Emmaline Williams v. Odie Washington, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• determining that failure to investigate and visit the scene rendered defense counsel’s performance deficient and violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights
• finding deficient performance where counsel failed to interview witnesses who could have undercut alleged victim’s credibility
• “[b]ecause of his ignorance, counsel was… unable… to make any strate- gic decision[ ]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).