Wilburn A. Henderson v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Arkansas Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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

• “Counsel has ‘a duty ... to investigate all witnesses who allegedly possessed knowledge concerning [the defendant’s] guilt or innocence.’”
• “Reasonable performance of counsel includes an adequate investigation of the facts of the ease, consideration of viable theories, and development of evidence to support those theories.”
• “Counsel has ‘a duty . . . to investigate all witnesses who allegedly possessed knowledge concerning [the defendant’s] guilt or innocence.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).