Gary Leroy Profitt v. George R. Waldron, Warden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that “our usual deference to tactical decisions is not relevant” when the decisions are based on “information that was faulty because of [] ineffective investigatory steps”
• finding that 15 “our usual deference to tactical decisions is not relevant” when the decisions are based on “information that was faulty because of [ ] ineffective investigatory steps”
• finding ineffective assistance where counsel failed to request medical records and relied on court-appointed competency examination when he knew client had escaped from mental institution
• Strickland does not require deference to deci sions which do not yield any conceivable benefit to the defense
• “This measure of deference [to a claim of trial strategy] must not be watered down into a disguised form of acquiescence.”
• attorney had no viable reasons for his failure to interview witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).