State v. Maestas

DURHAM, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 Gino Maestas appeals from convictions on eight counts of aggravated robbery. Maestas asserts that he was denied effective assistance of counsel, as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article I, section 7 of the Utah Constitution, because his trial counsel failed to (1) request a cautionary eyewitness identification instruction, (2) move to suppress the allegedly unreliable eyewitness identifications, (3) move to sever charges stemming from robberies at two different locations, (4) request a jury instruction limiting the…