Wiggins v. Smith, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that counsel performed deficiently where counsel acknowledged the relevant professional norm
• noting that the Supreme Court has long referred to ABA standards as “guides to determining what is reasonable” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[W]e [must] reweigh the evidence in aggravation against the totality of available mitigating evidence.”

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