Missouri State Life Ins. v. Pater

How courts have described this case

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• holding that despite the substantial evidence of aggravation, failure to present mitigating evidence was prejudicial
• holding that mental health evidence could be mitigating at the penalty phase “even though it is insufficient to establish a legal defense to conviction in the guilt phase”
• holding that the Constitution does not “require an attorney, without interdisciplinary guidance, to provide a psychiatric expert with all information necessary to reach a mental health diagnosis”
• holding that counsel’s performance was defi- cient for failing to investigate readily available evidence of mental impairment
• holding that mental health evidence could be mitigating at the penalty phase “even though it is insufficient to establish a legal defense to conviction in the guilty phase”
• holding that hiring of only two mental health experts was not deficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).