United States Ninth Circuit

Failure of defense counsel to investigate educational, occupational and criminal records for penalty phase of capital case constitutes ineffective assistance where defendant had history of drug abuse, child abuse and mitigating behavior in prison.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2001
• Decided 09/28/2001
• Published 09/28/2001

Judges

• Before:  HUG, GRABER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Quin Denvir, Federal Defender, Sacramento, California, and James S. Thomson, Berkeley, California, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Robert Jibson, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for the respondent.