Severson v. Color Ad Packaging

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defense counsel's disclosure of damaging facts that would not otherwise have been disclosed to the jury did not constitute an objectively reasonable trial strategy
• holding that defense counsel's disclosure of damaging facts that would not otherwise have been disclosed to the jury did not constitute an objectively reasonable trial strategy
• stating that if trial counsel makes a strategic decision after a thorough investigation of the law and the facts relevant to the plausible options, then the decision is virtually unchallengeable
• explaining how the financial disincentive under which defense counsel labored adversely affected the attorney's performance
• distinguishing between standards of attorney conduct compelled by the Sixth Amendment and those set out in ABA Guidelines for Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
• reversing convictions and remanding for new trial due to ineffective assistance of counsel

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