United States Sixth Circuit

An evidentiary hearing is required to determine whether, or to what extent, petitioner's trial counsel investigated his medical condition, and whether his failure to contact petitioner's treating physician to support an alibi defense was sound trial strategy or constitutionally deficient performance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2000
• Published 11/09/2000

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN, Chief Judge;  NORRIS, Circuit Judge;  FORESTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth P. Tableman (argued and briefed), Lansing, Michigan, Stewart Barnes, Jackson, Michigan, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Vincent J. Leone (argued and briefed), Assistant Attorney General, Habeas Corpus Division, Lansing, Michigan, for Respondent-Appellee.