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United States v. Macias, 10th Cir. (2011)
United States v. Macias, 10th Cir. (2011)
United States v. Macias, 10th Cir. (2011)
Elisabeth A. Shumaker
Clerk of Court
No. 10-4094
(Case Nos. 2:09-CV-01106-DAK and
2:06-CR-00111-DAK-1)
(D. Utah)
DefendantAppellant.
This order is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of
the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its
persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.
were upheld on direct appeal. See United States v. Macias, 306 F. Appx 409
(10th Cir. 2008).
Appellant then filed a habeas petition in the district court, alleging his pretrial counsel failed to call Appellant to testify at the hearing for his motion to
suppress and raise various other issues at the hearing. The district court denied
Appellants habeas petition, correctly applying the Strickland standard to find that
[Appellants] counsel performed in accordance with professional norms and that
his counsels actions did not in anyway prejudice [Appellant]. (Doc. 4 at 2); see
also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 688 (1984).
To obtain a certificate of appealability, Appellant must make a substantial
showing of the denial of a constitutional right. 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2). In order
to meet this burden, he must demonstrate that reasonable jurists could debate
whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in
a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to deserve
encouragement to proceed further. Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)
(internal quotation marks omitted).
In his arguments to this court, Appellant bases his ineffective assistance
claim principally on the argument that his attorney should have called him to
testify at the suppression hearing. He also argues his attorney should have made
several additional arguments, including that the state troopers search of
Appellants car exceeded the scope of consent and that Utahs drug interdiction
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Monroe G. McKay
Circuit Judge
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