STATE v. WEST

No. 31517-7-III.

344 P.3d 1233 (2015)

STATE of Washington, Respondent/Cross-Appellant, v. Michael Lynn WEST, Jr., Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

January 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea Burkhart , Burkhart & Burkhart, PLLC, Walla Walla, WA, for Appellant.

Mark Erik Lindsey , Spokane County Prosecuting Attorneys, Spokane, WA, for Respondent/Cross-Appellant.


¶ 1 We address a common argument of a criminal defendant on appeal: his trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of his constitutional rights. The argument arrives in a new setting. Michael West complains of his trial counsel's failure to ask the trial court, in addition to the jury, to acquit him by...

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