Johnny Lee Riley, Jr. v. Alice Payne

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• holding that, under clearly established Supreme Court law, when defense counsel failed to contact a potential witness, counsel could not “be presumed to have made an informed tactical decision” not to call that person as a witness
• noting that counsel does not perform deficiently simply because some witness es were not interviewed
• granting habeas relief under Strickland because petitioner “did not get a fair shake from the legal system”
• “[W]ithout any corroborating witnesses, [Riley’s] bare testimony left him without any effective defense.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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