Sorrells v. State

Phipps, Chief Judge.

As part of an ongoing narcotics investigation, police detectives working undercover with the aid of a confidential informant purchased cocaine from a man whom the detectives later identified as Eurieso Sorrells. Thereafter convicted for the sale of cocaine, Sorrells was given a 40-year recidivist sentence, and his motion for new trial was denied. In this appeal, Sorrells contends that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of one of the detectives’ pretrial and in-court identifications of him and by rejecting his claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.…