A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.
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