Jesse Andrews v. Kevin Chappell

I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the district court’s order granting Andrews relief due to ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of his trial. ,. Andrews was convicted of three heinous ■and appalling murders. His prior crimes were violent and antisocial. But due to defense counsel’s constitutionally inadequate penalty phase investigation, the jurors who sentenced Andrews to death never knew that he was subjected for two years as a young teenager to brutal, inhumane, and degrading abuse by his state custodians at Mt. Meigs, a segregated reform school for “Negro children”…