reasonable-investigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-09 Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective for failing to conduct a reasonable investigation into a potential defense witness, which led …
21-5567 Damond Dean v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied IFP corroborating-evidence criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-investigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington therapist-testimony trial-counsel witness-credibility Question Number One: Counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to K.H.'s (Complainant) therapist's testimony when she told the jur…
20-658 Sherri Cohen v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied consumer-disputes consumer-protection credit-disputes credit-file-accuracy credit-repair credit-reporting credit-reporting-agencies fair-credit-reporting-act pro-se-litigation reasonable-investigation Question 1. Whether CRAs like TransUnion and Equifax can satisfy the requirement of §1681i(a) of the FCRA that they "conduct a reasonable investigat…
18-6320 Timothy Joseph McGhee v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-investigation reasonable-investigation strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard unreasonable-factual-findings unreasonable-findings-of-fact (1) Defense attorneys must conduct reasonable investigations . Out of twenty one potential witnesses, trial counsel only interviewed McGhee and his fr…