Sheldon Sanders v. John Ratelle, Warden Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of the State of California

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• holding that a subsequent disbarment could help to explain a failure to investigate
• holding that in assessing medical opinions an ALJ may 22 properly consider the level or frequency of treatment for allegedly disabling conditions over the 23 course of a claimant’s history of medical care
• finding defense counsel’s performance deficient because he failed to investigate or introduce at trial evidence implicating his client’s brother
• reviewing court “must examine the record to discern whether the attorney’s behavior seems to have been influenced by the suggested conduct”
• labeling counsel’s decision “strategy” does not demonstrate by itself the reasonableness of his tactics under Strickland
• finding counsel’s decision to pursue weak defenses based on an alibi and a theory that the shooter was inside the house instead of outside was unreasonable when a “far more plausible defense” of mistaken identity was available

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