283 Ga. App. 1 - Goldstein v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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31 state decisions

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1. “These complaints are highly relevant, both to [the witness’s] own credibility and also to that of the young victim, whose mother’s prior and persistent claims of molestation could surely be expected to affect the victim’s own attitude, behavior, and outlook. This evidence was readily available to trial counsel. We must agree . . . that trial counsel’s failure to investigate this evidence, present it, and use it in cross-examining [the mother] was a major deficiency. A reasonable probability exists that had trial counsel done so, it could have influenced the outcome of the trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 287 Ga. App. 694 - Gibbs v. State

2. “particularly because he inexplicably failed to present evidence ... that bears on several important issues and which could have changed the outcome of the trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 343 Ga. App. 623 - TEZENO v. the STATE.