Patterson v. State

OPINION

ROBB, Judge.

Case Summary and Issue

Paul Patterson appeals the ten-year sentence imposed after he pled guilty to dealing in cocaine, a Class B felony. For our review, Patterson raises two issues that we consolidate and restate as one: whether Patterson received ineffective assistance of counsel when counsel did not move for the judge presiding over his sentencing hearing to recuse himself. Concluding that the sentencing judge's prior participation in the case as a prosecuting attorney re quired his disqualification and, therefore, Patterson's counsel was ineffective by failing to move…