Milton v. Boughton

Geometry Milton was convicted by a Wisconsin jury of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime. He challenges the district court's denial of his habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, arguing that trial counsel was ineffective for not moving to suppress identification evidence from an uncounseled post-indictment lineup. But the Wisconsin Court of Appeals determined that even if counsel had successfully challenged the *722lineup, there was no reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would differ.

I. BACKGROUND

Late one August night in 2008, Timothy Cotton was visiting…