State v. Cardona-Rivera

GARRISON, Presiding Judge.

Jairo Cardona-Rivera (“Defendant”) was convicted by a jury of attempted trafficking in the first degree, § 195.222.2(2), 1 and was sentenced as a prior drug offender to thirty years without eligibility for probation or parole. He raises five points of error on this appeal relating to the denial of his motion to suppress; the alleged ineffectiveness of his trial counsel; the exclusion of exculpatory statements allegedly made by him; the alleged failure to provide him with a competent and unbiased interpreter at trial; and the state’s reference to him as a Colombian.…