State v. King

Opinion

CHRISTIANSEN, Judge:

¶1 Defendant Levi Gene King appeals from his convictions for theft as a second-degree felony, theft as a third-degree felony, and failure to stop at the command of a law enforcement officer as a class A misdemean- or. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-404 (Lexis-Nexis 2012); id. § 76-6-412(1); id. § 76-8-305.5. Primarily, he contends that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to introduce expert testimony regarding the reliability of eyewitness identification. Because declining to introduce potentially harmful testimony was sound trial strategy…