Porter v. McCollum

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel was deficient for failing to obtain any school, medical, or military records, to interview any family members, or otherwise to investigate the defendant’s mental health and background
• concluding that counsel’s performance was constitutionally deficient where counsel “did not even take the first step of interviewing witnesses or requesting records”
• concluding that counsel’s performance was constitutionally deficient where counsel “did not even take the first step of interviewing witnesses or requesting records”
• holding that counsel performed deficiently because he “ignored pertinent avenues for investigation of which he should have been aware”
• holding that state court unreasonably applied clearly established law because in its analysis the court “either did not consider or unreasonably discounted the mitigation evidence adduced in the postconviction hearing”
• holding that counsel was ineffective for failing to uncover and present any evidence of petitioner’s mental health or mental impairment, his family background, or his military service

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).