Thomas Morelos v. United States

BYE, Circuit Judge.

In 2007, Thomas Michael Morelos was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana. After the denial of his direct appeal, Morelos filed this motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence, asserting claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel. The district court 1 denied the motion, addressing all of Morelos’s grounds for his claims except a single allegation Morelos’s trial counsel had been subject to an actual conflict of interest when his license to practice law in South Dakota had been…