United States Ninth Circuit

Conviction and death sentence reversed where no reasonable tactical decision motivated defense attorney's complete failure to investigate and present, at the guilt phase of trial, vast information about appellant's frail mental health.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2002
• Published 05/10/2002

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, T.G. NELSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gilbert Eisenberg and Marianne D. Bachers, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Deist, California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.