Johnny L. Marshall v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

Johnny Marshall appeals the District Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to vacate, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, his Florida conviction and sentence for armed robbery with a firearm. The issue before the District Court and now on appeal is whether the Florida courts unreasonably applied the Supreme Court’s decision in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), in concluding that Marshall’s attorney did not render ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to move the trial court to suppress an…