Walter Stewart v. Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center

How courts have described this case

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• “Presumably the lawyer is not required to investigate the defendant’s past with the thoroughness of a biographer.”
• find- ing attorney’s failure to fully investigate defendant’s his- tory of drug use or potential brain damage was not ineffec- tive assistance of counsel because the additional evidence would not have made a difference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).