United States v. Steven Morris

PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:

Steven Lavonne Morris was sentenced as a career offender under the Sentencing Guidelines, based in part on a prior Virginia conviction for attempted abduction. Morris now seeks relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , arguing that his counsel was ineffective for failing to object to use of that conviction as a predicate crime of violence. Because precedent at the time of Morris's 2013 sentencing did not strongly suggest that his career offender enhancement was improper, see United States v. Carthorne , 878 F.3d 458 , 466 (4th Cir. 2017), we find that counsel was not…