State v. Meckelson

¶1 A criminal defendant receives constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel where no legitimate strategic or tactical explanation can be found for a particular trial decision. State v. Rainey, 107 Wn. App. 129, 135-36, 28 P.3d 10 (2001) (citing State v. McFarland, 127 Wn.2d 322, 336, 899 P.2d 1251 (1995)). Failure to bring a plausible motion to suppress potentially unlawfully obtained evidence is one such decision. Rainey, 107 Wn. App. *434at 136. David Lloyd, Meckelson’s defense lawyer, failed to pursue a plausible challenge to the lawfulness of a traffic stop that led to Mr. Meckelson’s…