Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether an incarcerated inmate’s trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation under the “prevailing norms” of the American Bar Association standards of professional competence, which prejudiced the inmate if all the evidence adduced at trial and in the habeas proceeding is considered, when that counsel openly admitted to failing to conduct an investigation into the inmate’s innocence prior to the inmate’s capital-murder trial.