Schad v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. “Schad's principal contention is that the district court erred because he is presenting a different ineffective assistance claim than that presented in state court. He is now contending that the federal claim of counsel ineffectiveness with respect to the effect of childhood abuse is somehow distinct from the earlier claim of ineffectiveness in failing to investigate the childhood abuse itself. The two cannot be so easily separated, however, because the relevant mitigating factor in sentencing was always the effect of the childhood abuse on his adult mental state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dickens v. Ryan