Effective Assistance—Adequate Investigation

SEE ALSO HABEAS CORPUS

Whether a remand is required because the district court failed to address Hernandez’s claim that his counsel had rendered ineffective assistance by failing to investigate whether his mental health history provided grounds for a defense to the charged crimes. (Eddie Hernandez, February 18, 1999)

Whether the district court erred by refusing to hold an evidentiary hearing on Hernandez’s habeas petition, when Hernandez showed that he had a documented history of mental illness and that his trial attorney had not investigated that history before Hernandez pleaded guilty. (Eddie Hernandez, February 18, 1999)

Whether De la Rosa’s guilty plea should be vacated because his counsel failed to render constitutionally effective assistance. (Raymundo De la Rosa, April 10, 1998)

Whether the failure of Rich’s trial counsel to investigate and present witnesses who would have supported Rich’s defense constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. (William C. Rich, April 14, 1997)*

Whether Calvillo’s plea of no contest to a murder charge was involuntarily entered because his attorney failed to adequately investigate evidence suggesting that Calvillo was guilty only of manslaughter. (Jesus D. Calvillo, April 18, 1994)*

Whether Delgado was deprived of effective assistance of counsel when his attorneys failed to investigate adequately evidence suggesting that Delgado had been mistakenly identified as the culprit, and failed to move to suppress pretrial identifications that they knew were the result of repeated one-photograph displays. (Robert Delgado, July 19, 1993)