Lockett v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant was prejudiced under Strickland based on counsel’s failure to investigate mitigating evidence relating to defendant’s mental condition
• holding that the failure to conduct a minimal investigation of a defendant’s possible mitigation evidence renders counsel’s performance deficient
• stating that Strickland \demands more than the mere deci- sion of a strategic choice by counsel. It requires informed strategic choices.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• Strickland requires deference to counsel’s “informed strategic choices”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).