State Of Washington v. Brandon Lee Hansen

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON STATE OF WASHINGTON, No. 71215-2-1 c?1 Respondent, DIVISION ONE v. BRANDON LEE HANSEN, UNPUBLISHED r-- Appellant. FILED: July 27, 2015 Cox, J. - To show ineffective assistance of counsel based on the failure to raise a motion to sever, the defendant must establish that the court likely would have granted the motion.1 Here, Brandon Hansen's counsel failed to renew a motion to sever Hansen's charges at the close of the evidence following the court's earlier denial of the same motion. Because Hansen cannot show that the court likely would have…