CARTER v. PARRIS

No. 17-5498.

910 F.3d 835 (2018)

Maurice Edward CARTER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Mike PARRIS, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: December 10, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Andrew Kim , GOODWIN PROCTER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Nicholas S. Bolduc , OFFICE OF THE TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Andrew Kim , William M. Jay , GOODWIN PROCTER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Nicholas S. Bolduc , OFFICE OF THE TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Before: THAPAR, BUSH, and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Maurice Carter pled guilty to a variety of sex crimes and received a twenty-year prison sentence. He now petitions for habeas relief. Carter alleges his attorneys were constitutionally ineffective for failing to make the best arguments for suppression of key evidence. Yet even if Carter's counsel had made...

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