Ineffective Counsel and Mental Health Expert Witness Testimony in an Insanity Defense

[摘要] In Aw k al v. Mitchell , 559 F.3d 456 (6th Cir. 2009), a capital murder case, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that defense counsel`s decision to call a mental health expert witness whose testimony on cross-examination devastated the defendant`s only defense (that he was insane at the

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