It appears that they were not aware of the situation with Williams when it came to the mental illness and the child abuse, but it is also possible that they kept silent about the issue against an attorney that they knew to be incompetent in order to get a conviction. Speculation is all that is available on that issue where the prosecution is concerned since accounts of what happened to Alexander Williams do not indicate whether the prosecution had knowledge of the mental health problems that Williams had and/or the abusive home that he came from.

THE ATTORNEY'S INVESTIGATION

Perhaps this section should be more appropriately called 'the attorney's lack of investigation,' as that is largely what took place. There were many mitigating circumstances that surrounded Alexander Williams and the murder that he committed, but the incompetent attorney that was assigned to him failed to investigate any of them (Juvenile,...
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