Where Strickland v. Washington serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there are several different measuring sticks in awarding a Petitioner relief from ineffective counsel and does counsel's inferior work product, lacking case law, and doing no credible investigation into pertinent case law research and investigation (which existed and would have greatly assisted Petitioner's choice to take a plea agreement or go trial, which would have most likely created a different result for Petitioner) represents a Strickland violation?

Question Presented Where Strickland v. Washington, serves as the current case law protecting an accused's right to fair and competent assistance of legal counsel, there are several different measuring sticks in awarding a Petitioner relief from ineffective counsel and does counsel's inferior work product, lacking case law, and doing no credible investigation into pertinent case law research and investigation (which existed and would have greatly assisted Petitioner's choice to take a plea agreement or go trial, which would have most likely created a different result for Petitioner) represents a Strickland violation? (i)