U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Maurice Carter v. Mike Parris
Panel
The judges who heard this appeal.
- Judge Amul Roger Thapar
- Judge John Kenneth Bush
- Judge John Baylor Nalbandian
Case history
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Dec. 10, 2018decided Decision issued in Maurice Carter v. Mike Parris
Opinions and writings
THAPAR, Circuit Judge. 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 different arguments, the end result in his case would have…