State v. Fortun-Cebada

¶1 The State charged Jorge Fortun-Cebada with possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. Fortun-Cebada seeks reversal of his conviction of possession of cocaine, claiming his attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to move to suppress on the grounds that the police unlawfully seized the alleged buyer, Wilbert Walker, and Walker’s show-up identification of Fortun-Cebada was inherently unreliable. Fortun-Cebada also claims that because admission of out-of-court hearsay statements at the CrR 3.6 suppression hearing violated his constitutional right to confrontation…