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NIMS v. STATE

No. 86-184.

401 N.W.2d 231 (1986)

William James NIMS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Respondent-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

December 23, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Rapp, Waterloo, for petitioner-appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Joseph P. Weeg, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Scott Lemke, Asst. Black Hawk Co. Atty., for respondent-appellee.

Considered by DONIELSON, P.J., and HAYDEN and SACKETT, JJ.

SACKETT, Judge.

Petitioner William James Nims, Jr., appeals from the district court's denial of his application for postconviction relief from his 1983 conviction for kidnapping in the first degree. Nims alleges he received ineffective assistance of counsel during his 1983 criminal trial in the following respects: (1) trial counsel failed to seek exclusion of inadmissible evidence, (2) trial counsel failed to submit evidence...

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