STATE v. LEWIS

No. 85-817.

391 N.W.2d 726 (1986)

STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Randolph LEWIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

June 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Wellman, Citizen Advocate Office, for defendant-appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Ann DiDonato, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Catherine Thune, Asst. Co. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


SNELL, Judge.

At about 3:00 p.m. on December 16, 1984, three persons, one armed with a .45 caliber pistol, entered the home of Des Moines residents Mike and Shelly Gates and forced them to turn over $350 and a small quantity of marijuana. The Gates and their two-year-old child were then forced into a closet and the robbers threatened to shoot through it. The victims, who themselves were admitted drug dealers, did not report the incident to police. After a friend of...

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