Kansas City Life Insurance v. Anthony

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that counsel was deficient for failing to present testimony and records that would have been “far more helpful” for establishing the defense’s theory than the evidence that was presented
• holding it proper to consider prejudice of deficient performance of counsel, along with trial court errors, in a cumulative error analysis, without reaching the prejudice of each IAC claim individually
• finding cumulative error in part because \the cumulative impact of the errors goes to the heart of the prosecution's theory of the case\
• finding cumulative error in part because “the cumulative impact of the eri-ors goes to the heart of the prosecution’s theory of the case”
• holding there was a due process violation where defendant was charged with murder and the prosecution admitted into evidence that police had seized from defendant’s home two unused sets of kitchen knives made by same company that made the murder weapon
• reversing 9 conviction where multiple constitutional errors hindered defendant's efforts to challenge every 10 important element of proof offered by prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).