Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas

Summary

The Supreme Court held that Terence Andrus received constitutionally deficient assistance of counsel because his lawyer failed to investigate and present extensive mitigating evidence, satisfying the performance prong of Strickland. The Court also found a significant question as to whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals properly considered the prejudice prong and therefore vacated that judgment and remanded for further prejudice analysis.