{"id":47996,"date":"2021-04-05T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47996"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:58:27","slug":"ga-valid-strategic-choice-to-forego-search-claim-to-support-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47996","title":{"rendered":"GA: Valid strategic choice to forego search claim to support defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Involving pre-Carpenter CSLI, the defense had valid strategic reasons to forego a motion to suppress to support the defense arguments at trial. \u201cBecause we hold that Thomas&#8217;s trial counsel did not perform deficiently because she had a reasonable strategic purpose for withdrawing the motion to suppress, we need not address whether her decision constituted ineffective assistance of counsel related to the merits of the underlying motion.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasupreme.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/s21a0422.pdf\">Thomas v. State<\/a>, 2021 Ga. LEXIS 134 (Apr. 5, 2021) [see \u00a7 60.19; could have been decided on good faith alone, but wasn&#8217;t].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carpenter isn\u2019t retroactive to cases on collateral review. CoA denied. Bowers v. United States, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 9700 (11th Cir. Apr. 2, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involving pre-Carpenter CSLI, the defense had valid strategic reasons to forego a motion to suppress to support the defense arguments at trial. \u201cBecause we hold that Thomas&#8217;s trial counsel did not perform deficiently because she had a reasonable strategic purpose &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information","category-good-faith-exception","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47997,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47996\/revisions\/47997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}