Johnnie Brown v. Jerry Sternes, Warden

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• warning against the acceptance of “post-hoc, self-serving” claims from attorneys during ineffective counsel proceedings
• noting it is common knowledge that an evaluating psychiatrist’s expert opinion concerning a defendant’s mental status will be based primarily on “past psychiatric history, family history, criminal activity, and medical records”
• rejecting counsel’s claim abandonment of investigation of defendant’s mental health records was strategic where counsel sought continuance of trial in order to obtain records and then inexplicably failed to find out why records had not been sent
• rejecting counsel's claim abandonment of investigation of defendant's mental health records was strategic where counsel sought continuance of trial in order to obtain records and then inexplicably failed to find out why records had not been sent
• rejecting counsel’s claim abandonment of investigation of defendant’s mental health records was strategic where counsel sought continuance of trial in order to obtain records and then inexplicably failed to find out why records had not been sent
• counsel failed to investigate defendant’s mental health even though defendant was under psychiatric treatment, made irrational and uncontrolled outbursts at trial, and yelled at counsel’s law clerk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).