Legal Opinion
Anthony Owens v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 19, 2004No. 03-1507PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Anthony Owens filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to set aside his drug conviction and sentence because his trial lawyer fumbled what should have been a successful motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a warrant to search Owens’s house. The district court denied the motion, and Owens appeals. He is met at the threshold by our decision in Holman v. Page, 95 F.3d 481, 488-92 (7th Cir.1996), which holds that a failure to make a Fourth Amendment objection to the admission of evidence, however meritorious the objection, cannot amount to ineffective assistance of ,…
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