Hamilton v. Ayers

How courts have described this case

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

• finding ineffective assistance where defense counsel had never worked on a capital case before and failed to associate co-counsel
• listing general categories of inquiry for a penalty-phase investigation, including “family abuse,” required by Strickland
• finding ineffective assistance where defense counsel had never worked on a capital case before and failed to associate co-counsel
• finding ineffective assistance where defense counsel had never worked on a capital case before and failed to associate co-counsel
• distinguishing facts in Landrigan from case in which defendant \refused to assist in his defense\ but \did not impede the many other avenues of mitigating evidence available to counsel\
• finding ineffective assistance where the defense “investiga- tion consisted of at most five interviews”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).