Showers v. Beard

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that trial counsel was deficient for failing to consult expert regarding voluntary and involuntary ingestion of a bitter toxic substance, the “defining issue” in the case
• expert testimony presented at hearing on defendant’s petition for collateral relief “would have cast serious doubt” on prosecution’s case by supporting defense suicide theory
• expert testimony presented at hearing on defendant’s petition for collateral relief “would have cast serious doubt” on prosecution’s case by supporting defense suicide theory
• state court unreasonably applied Strickland in finding trial counsel’s “closing argument sufficiently exploited gaps in the Commonwealth’s evidence[,]” eliminating need for expert testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).