Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

By: Derek Hawkins//September 25, 2018//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Geometry L. Milton v. Gary A. Boughton

Case No.: 17-1910

Officials: KANNE, SCUDDER, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

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 lineup, there was no reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would differ.

Affirmed

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