mitigation-strategy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel Whether courts must consider the record evidence in determining the reasonableness of trial counsel's actions, or can deem them strategic and reasonab…