Teshome Campbell v. Dan Reardon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting state court’s assumption that lawyer’s decision not to interview eyewitnesses was reasonable; proper inquiry was “whether the investigation supporting counsel’s decision” not to call the witnesses “was itself reasonable”
• assuming deficient performance when state court “did not address the adequacy of [counsel’s] pretrial investigation”
• rejecting state court’s assumption that lawyer’s decision not to inter- view eyewitnesses was reasonable; proper inquiry was “whether the investigation supporting counsel’s decision” not to call the witnesses “was itself reasonable”
• “[T]he adequacy of the pretrial investigation … was clearly established under Strickland as the critical threshold question … .”
• “[T]he adequacy of the pretrial investigation … was clearly established under Strickland as the critical threshold question … .”
• “[T]he adequacy of the pretrial investigation … was clearly established under Strickland as the critical threshold question … .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).