James Clifford Slick Basham v. United States

BYE, Circuit Judge.

James Clifford Slick Basham pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Basham filed a petition for relief from his conviction and sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 alleging counsel was ineffective in failing to move to suppress the search of his cell phone data incident to arrest. The district court 1 denied the petition. We affirm.

I

After police conducted a controlled sale of methamphetamine to Basham, Basham was arrested and the data of at least one of two cell phones he had in his possession was searched incident to arrest. Information…