Michael Emerson CORRELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Terry L. STEWART, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee

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• holding that counsel’s failure to develop a mens rea defense was reasonable because such a defense “would have conflicted with the primary defense theory of misidentification”
• holding that counsel’s failure to develop a mens rea defense was reasonable because such a defense “would have conflicted with the primary defense theory of misidentification”
• noting that a motion for reconsideration is “an avenue of relief that the Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure clearly outline”
• noting that a motion for reconsid- eration is “an avenue of relief that the Arizona Rules of Crim- inal Procedure clearly outline”
• finding prejudice established where Correll's attorney failed to present any evidence of mental illness sufficient to satisfy Arizona law
• finding counsel’s performance deficient when the attorney failed to call any mitigation witnesses despite knowing people who were willing to testify, and barely raised the defendant’s psychiatric history as a mitigating factor

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