Mitchell v. Local 46, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]here was no evident downside to petitioner from requesting an instruction on [the lesser-included offense] and significant potential benefit to him from doing so.”
• even without direct evidence, “the record is sufficient to support a finding that the attorney did not consider whether to [request a lesser-included instruction] and, hence, failed to exercise reasonable professional skill and judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).