Opinion ID: 1882598
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Validity of Warrants

Text: Suggs claims that his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated because the warrants authorizing the searches of his home and vehicle did not meet the particularity requirement. The postconviction court denied relief on the basis of a procedural bar since the issue should have been raised on direct appeal when this Court reviewed the trial court's denial of Suggs' motion to suppress. Any challenge to the denial of the motion to suppress should have been raised on direct appeal. Since the particularity allegation was not raised on direct appeal, we agree with the postconviction court that this claim is procedurally barred. Suggs alternatively argues that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to raise in the pretrial motion to suppress the particularity requirement as a ground for excluding the evidence seized under the warrants. However, Suggs provided no basis to the postconviction court or this Court upon which to find that counsel was ineffective for failing to raise the particularity requirement for the issuance of a warrant. Suggs did not include this point in his Written Closing Arguments to the postconviction court, and consequently the trial judge did not include the issue in his order. We therefore affirm the postconviction court's general denial of relief as it relates to this issue.