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  • Dec. 10, 2018
    decided Decision issued in Maurice Carter v. Mike Parris

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Opinion By Amul Roger Thapar Dec. 10, 2018

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…

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