McGill v. State of Florida

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• holding that evidence the prosecution offered to allow the defendant to plead guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated assault was mitigating evidence that could be admitted in the sentencing phase after the defendant had been found guilty of first-degree murder
• holding that evi- dence the prosecution offered to allow the defendant to plead guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated assault was mitigating evidence that could be admitted in the sentencing phase after the defendant had been found guilty of first-degree murder
• describing evidence of the peti- tioner’s “tortured family history, including the fact that [his] alcoholic mother beat him frequently,” and possible mental health issues
• describing evidence of the petitioner’s “tortured family history, including the fact that [his] alcoholic mother beat him frequently,” and possible mental health issues
• finding ineffective assistance where trial counsel failed to obtain readily available evidence concerning possible mental health mitigation where his chent’s prior attorney told him there were indications that the defendant was mentally ill
• finding ineffective assistance where trial counsel failed to obtain readily available evidence concerning possible mental health mitigation where his client's prior attorney told him there were indications that the defendant was mentally ill

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).