Melvin H. Sullivan v. James A. Fairman

How courts have described this case

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• stating that complete failure to investigate potentially corroborating witnesses can hardly be considered tactical decision
• explaining that “few petitioners” are expected to be able to pass through the “eye of the needle created by Strickland”
• counsel was ineffective when he made merely ‘‘perfunctory’’ efforts to interview witnesses noted in police reports

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).