157 Ohio App. 3d 653 - State v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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1. “Leonard directed his seventh claim and the balance of his fifth claim against the adequacy and effectiveness of counsel’s preparation for and presentation of the case in mitigation. The defense presented at trial a mitigation theory that proposed that Leonard was a good person who had acted out of character when he killed Dawn Flick. The evidentiary material offered by Leonard in support of his claims of counsel’s ineffectiveness merely supported an alternative theory of mitigation. When, as here, counsel presented the case in mitigation competently, in view of the facts available to them, evidence offered to prove the existence of mitigation evidence that counsel had failed to present at trial, and that supported an alternative theory of mitigation, did not provide proof of counsel’s ineffectiveness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leonard v. Warden, Ohio State Penitentiary