Ioengine, LLC v. Ingenico Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attorney presented with a viable defense of Battered Women’s Syndrome may need to hire a mental health expert before rejecting that defense
• explaining that “where a failure to investigate does not reflect sound professional judgment, such deference is not appropriate”
• giving examples of defense counsel's actions that would not constitute sound professional judgment
• counsel’s failure to investigate a duress defense and the related possibility that the defendant suffered from Battered Women’s Syndrome rendered advice regarding plea objectively unreasonable
• “attorney’s decision was not an exercise in professional judgment because it reflected a misunderstanding of the law regarding the availability of a mental health expert”
• “Although courts are typically required to show heightened deference to an attorney’s strategic decisions supported by professional judgment, where a failure to investigate does not reflect sound professional judgment, such deference is not appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).