Norman Darnell Baxter v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

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• concluding that reasonable investigation would have included interviews with defendant's sister and neighbor, as well as defendant's mother and brother
• stating that \[p]sychiatric mitigating evidence `has the potential to totally change the evidentiary picture.'\
• finding that reasonable investigation would have included family members where trial counsel spoke to defendant’s mother and brother, but not other family members
• finding counsel ineffective for failing to request state hospital records, school records, social service records, and failed [sic] to contact the defendant’s sister, neighbor, or social worker
• deficient performance where defense counsel failed to take any steps to uncover readily available mental health mitigating evidence
• “[Bjecause defense counsel was aware that [the defendant] was behaving oddly and asked the court that [the defendant] be evaluated by a psychiatrist, they were on notice of potential psychiatric problems in [the defendant’s] background.”

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