Steven Parkus v. Paul K. Delo

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• finding cause for procedural default of claim relating to petitioner’s mental health, where petitioner’s counsel had relied on false representation of state official that petitioner’s juvenile mental health records had been destroyed
• actual prejudice shown if petitioner can show \reasonable probability\ that but for the errors, result of proceeding would have been different
• trial counsel’s abandonment of investigation into the defendant’s mental health after being told that certain records were destroyed was unreasonable given that habeas counsel obtained the missing records “[t]hrough more virgorous pursuit”
• defendant suffered brutal physical and sexual abuse

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