Michael Crisp v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that \there may be unusual cases when an attorney can make a rational decision that investigation is unnecessary\
• finding that \[h]aving independent witnesses corroborate a defendant’s story may be essential\ and \testimony of additional witnesses cannot automatically be categorized as cumulative\
• finding that “having independent witness corroborate a defendant’s story may be essential” and “testimony of additional witnesses cannot automatically be categorized as cumulative and unnecessary”
• finding ineffective assistance of counsel in part because counsel did not interview three known witnesses to the shooting and he “failed to interview or call any of the persons [the defendant] said could corroborate his story”
• counsel should not be allowed to shield his failure to investigate simply by raising claim of “trial strategy and tactics”
• “We do not agree that police statements can generally serve as an adequate substitute for a personal interview.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).