Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson v. Tommy Herring, Cross-Appellee

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• concluding that prejudice arose where defendant’s lawyer failed to discover and introduce mitigating evidence showing that the defendant suffered a “brutal and abusive childhood”
• concluding that prejudice arose where defendant's lawyer failed to discover and introduce mitigating evidence showing that the defendant suffered a \brutal and abusive childhood\
• holding that aggravating evidence of murder would have been diminished by “[e]vidence showing the genesis of [the defendant’s] irrational rage through an abusive upbringing”
• holding that aggravating evidence of murder would have been diminished by “[e]vidence showing the genesis of [the defendant’s] irrational rage through an abusive upbringing”
• finding that the failure of counsel to investigate family history and background of client is inexplicable, could not be considered strategic, and required reversal
• finding that counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence of defendant's background where they had information that could have led them to witnesses who could have testified in defendant's behalf

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).