Fisher v. Gibson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where counsel undertook no substantial pretrial investigation and “investigated” the case during the trial, his conduct was “patently unreasonable”
• assessing prejudice from counsel’s “numerous shortcomings [and] omissions,” and holding “these errors” had a “devastating impact on the defense”
• finding counsel’s representation was objectively unreasonable when, among other things, attorney filed no discovery motions, failed to interview witnesses, and failed to investigate an alibi
• assessing prejudice from counsel’s “numerous” errors and concluding there was a “devastating impact on the defense”
• finding counsel ineffective where he “failed in general to advance any defense theory, even that of reasonable doubt”
• finding it was unreasonable for trial counsel to waive closing argument because counsel failed to advance a theory of defense in other portions of the trial and his actions almost certainly hurt defendant’s case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).