· 2/13/1984
United States of America Ex Rel. Larry Cosey v. Dennis Wolff and Neil F. Hartigan
Citations
- 727 F.2d 656
- 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 25515
How courts have described this case
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- “[Counsel] failed to so much as interview or investigate even one of these potential witnesses.”
- witnesses whose names petitioner had given to his counsel “would not only have corroborated [petitioner’s] story and further impeached the victim’s version, but . . . if the witnesses were believed, their testimony alone would have entirely exculpated [peti- tioner]”
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Judges: Dumbauld, Posner, Wood
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