it s clear ineffective assistance of counsel under the washington v. strickland case. they didn t check the red flags. look, we re not saying that strategy wasn t used here, but in order to invest in strategy, you have to know what all your options are. and without the lawyers completing a proper and thorough investigation and at the very least getting a mitigation expert to review the this case, i agree with the court, i think it was ineffective assistance. jon: but, fred, regardless of what led up to all of this, christopher james is dead. i mean, christopher james was an off-duty cop working at a dallas club. does it matter to him? does it matter to his widow, to his little kid what kind of life the shooter had prior to pulling the trigger? no. it doesn t matter to them one bit. their father s just as gone, and his wife s still a widow, and that child s still orphaned. it s a horrible, horrible case. john s right about this though, jon, the fact of the matter is that this is a dea