RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
For the conditional habeas relief granted state prisoner Jean Jones, serving a mandatory life sentence for heroin distribution, the critical question for her ineffective assistance of counsel claim is whether, at her half-day trial, deficient performance caused the requisite prejudice. We REVERSE and RENDER.
I.
At the end of October 1987, a Louisiana grand jury indicted Jones for distribution of heroin on 4...
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