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STATE v. IOWA DIST. COURT FOR LEE COUNTY

No. 86-25.

392 N.W.2d 143 (1986)

STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR LEE COUNTY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Roxann M. Ryan and Thomas H. Miller, Asst. Attys. Gen., for plaintiff.

Paul H. Rosenberg of Rosenberg, Rosenberg & Reade, Des Moines, for amicus curiae Donald Kness.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McGIVERIN, LARSON, SCHULTZ and WOLLE, JJ.

SCHULTZ, Justice.

The district court reviewed and reconsidered a six-month jail sentence, which had been imposed more than three years earlier, for contempt of court. In reconsidering the sentence, the court relied upon Iowa Code section 903.21 which allows the court to reconsider a misdemeanor sentence during a thirty-day period beginning on the date the person "begins to serve a sentence of...

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