George Lindstadt v. John P. Keane, Superintendent

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• holding that for Sixth Amendment purposes attorney errors must be considered “in the aggregate”
• assuming that had the relevant trial attorney performed an adequate pre-trial investigation, the defense would have discovered various articles published in scientific journals
• finding that state court unreasonably applied Strickland where counsel was ineffective for, among other reasons, failing to make reasonable investigations
• noting that counsel’s lack of familiarity with pertinent sexual abuse studies and failure to conduct any relevant research “hamstrung” his effort to effectively cross-examine the prosecution’s expert witness
• describing, in a similar context, the “exceeding importan[ce]” in a “credibility contest” of “the testimony of neutral, disinterested witnesses”
• determining that counsel was and put on the testimony of twelve other witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).