PINEDA v. WARDEN, CALHOUN STATE PRISON

No. 14-13772.

802 F.3d 1198 (2015)

Rafael Solorio PINEDA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. WARDEN, CALHOUN STATE PRISON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 21, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry David Wolfe , L. David Wolfe, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Katherine Lee Iannuzzi , Clint Christopher Malcolm , Samuel Scott Olens , David Allan Zisook , Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before WILSON and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and HODGES, District Judge. MARTIN, Circuit Judge:


Rafael Pineda, serving a thirty-year sentence for trafficking in cocaine, appeals the District Court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After a jury found him guilty, Mr. Pineda moved for a new trial, alleging that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to perfect a motion to suppress key evidence.1 He claims that the evidence supporting his conviction was...

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