Patrico Ramonez v. Mary Berghuis

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• finding counsel’s performance “objectively unreasonable” where he failed to interview or make reasonable attempts to interview three known potential alibi witnesses
• a strategic choice made without a professionally competent investigation of the Petitioner’s options is “erected upon . . . a rotten foundation” and is not entitled to deference
• investigation could have led to impeachment of the prosecution’s key witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).