Charles J. Thornton v. United States

This appeal from denial of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 presents two questions. The first, whether counsel at Thornton’s trial was ineffective, is easily disposed of. It is based almost entirely *830on counsel’s failure to make a pre-trial motion to suppress certain evidence. The fact is that counsel for Thornton joined with counsel for other defendants in the case in their motion at the trial to suppress the evidence in question. Counsel’s failure to make his own motion to suppress before trial provides no basis in this case for a claim of ineffective representation.

The second question is…