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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Scudder finds that the lower court properly denied defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim in connection with his unsuccessful motion to suppress evidence of possession of child pornography. It was reasonable for defendant's attorney not to pursue a claim that the agent signing the search warrant acted in bad faith by omitting the state court's suppression ruling from his federal search warrant affidavit because it would have faced a high bar to prove materiality to the charges. Affirmed.
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