STATE v. MARTENS

No. 93-449.

521 N.W.2d 768 (1994)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Frederick W. MARTENS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

June 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Shari Barron, Asst. State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Julie H. Brown, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Theresa J. Seeberger, County Atty., for appellee.

Heard by SACKETT, P.J., and CADY and HUITINK, JJ.


CADY, Judge.

We are asked in this appeal to consider defendant's claims that he was incompetent to stand trial and was denied effective assistance of counsel at trial. We conclude he was competent to be tried and was not burdened with ineffective counsel. We affirm his conviction on two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree.

In November 1991 the State charged Frederick Martens with sexually abusing the fifteen-year-old daughter of his live-in girl friend...

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