People v. Mozingo

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• holding trial counsel ineffective for failure to investigate diminished capacity defense despite defendant's unwillingness to cooperate where he previously had been diagnosed with schizophrenia by prison psychologist during previous incarceration
• noting that a possible conflict between mental state defense and alibi defense does not excuse counsel’s failure to initially investigate the potential strengths of a mental state defense

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