Does the Strickland standard fail to protect Sixth Amendment right to fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process in death-penalty cases involving deficient performance?

QUESTION PRESENTED Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when, in death-penalty cases involving flagrantly deficient performance, courts can deny relief following a truncated “no prejudice” analysis that does not account for the evidence amassed in a habeas proceeding and relies on a trial record shaped by trial counsel’s ineffective representation? ii