People of Michigan v. Matthew Martin Hays

How courts have described this case

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• noting that although petitioner’s case may have benefitted from investigation of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, the court considers “‘not what is prudent or appropriate, but only what is constitutionally compelled’”
• finding no Martinez violation where counsel did not seek mental diagnoses as “duty to investigate does not force defense lawyers to scour the globe on the off chance something will turn up”
• “[I]f the tools were available for a petitioner to construct the legal argument at the time of the state appeals process, then the claim cannot be said to be so novel as to constitute cause for failing to raise it earlier.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).