A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
The Supreme Court instructed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to consider whether counsel’s inadequate performance had prejudiced Andrus – that is, whether but for counsel’s deficient performance, the mitigating evidence might have prompted at least one juror to opt for a sentence of life without parole rather than the death penalty.
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