Jefferson v. Upton

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2010-05-24

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Per Curiam. Petitioner Lawrence Jefferson, who has been sentenced to death, claimed in both state and federal courts that his law *285 yers were constitutionally inadequate because they failed to investigate a traumatic head injury that he suffered as a child. The state court rejected that claim after making a finding that the attorneys were'advised by an expert that su…

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