OPINION
GREER, Judge.
In this matter we determine whether the defendant's trial counsel's failure to adequately prepare an insanity defense and request a Dessureault hearing amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel. For the following reasons, we determine it does and therefore reverse and remand this case for a new trial.
On October 21, 1980, defendant Edwards was indicted by the Maricopa County Grand Jury on charges of theft by extortion...
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