Legal Opinion
Gardner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 25, 2012No. 10-1576PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
A federal jury convicted Derrick Gardner of possession of a firearm by a felon, prohibited by 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), after police frisked him and discovered a pistol inside his coat pocket. Gardner insisted that the police had planted the gun on him; this led his lawyer to believe that he could not argue that the firearm was the fruit of a suspicionless search. In this collateral proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Gardner argues that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance in two respects: (1) by refusing to move to suppress the firearm as the product of an…
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