"[i]t is especially important for counsel to seek the advice of an expert when he has no knowledge or expertise about the field” and holding counsel’s performance deficient for failing to consult an expert before trial because counsel "did not have the personal expertise ... to make strategic decisions about how to handle ... evidence on his own and he certainly was not qualified to undermine the State’s case by simply cross-examining its experts without obtaining expert assistance himself.”); Bell v. Miller, 500 F.3d 149, 156 (2d Cir.2007) (concluding that counsel's failure to consult expert before cross-examining sole eyewitness who had suffered from "trauma, blood loss and sedation” was deficient performance under Strickland); Gersten v. Senkowski, 426 F.3d 588, 611 (2d Cir.2005) (<HOLDING>). 25 . See Grey Declaration (mitigation
holding that counsel was deficient for failing to consult an expert and present expert testimony about the physiological effect of toxic chemical exposure on defendants brain holding defendants prior conviction for assault related to sexual abuse of a minor even though it did not require an act of sexual abuse because it required intent to commit sexual abuse  and such a mens rea demonstrate the offense was one relating to sexual abuse holding that counsel was not deficient in failing to call a witness where the defendant never provided the witnesss name to counsel and no evidence existed that counsel had any notice of the witnesss identity holding that counsel was deficient for failfing to consult or call an expert on the psychology of child sexual abuse or to educate himself sufficiently on the scientific issues holding that school districts failure to consult with the plaintiffs expert or to adopt the number of hours she recommended for a particular therapy did not render the iep substantively deficient