Leavitt v. Arave, No. 08-99002 (9th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseThe state appealed the district court's grant of a conditional writ of habeas corpus where defendant was charged with murder. At issue was whether petitioner's lawyer rendered ineffective assistance of counsel while trying to have him acquitted of the death penalty. The court reversed and held that petitioner had not made out his claim that his counsel's assistance was constitutionally deficient and even if he had, the gruesome nature of the crime, coupled with the relatively weak additional evidence that might have been revealed, led the court to conclude that any ineffectiveness was not prejudicial.
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