STATE v. YOUNG

No. 63986.

293 N.W.2d 5 (1980)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Willie Thomas YOUNG, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin R. Davidson, Asst. Public Defender, Waterloo, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Kathy Krewer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Jay Nardini, Asst. Black Hawk County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REES, P. J., and UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN and LARSON, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

The determinative question here is whether terrorism under section 708.6(1), The Code, is a forcible felony as the term is defined in section 702.11. The trial court held it is in sentencing defendant Willie Thomas Young to a mandatory minimum five-year prison term under section 902.7 for use of a firearm in committing a forcible felony. We affirm.

Section 708.6 provides in relevant part:

A person commits a class "D" felony when...

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