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Type
Opinion
Author
Amul Roger Thapar
Filed
Dec. 10, 2018
Case
Maurice Carter v. Mike Parris
Case status
Decided

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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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