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STATE v. CHEATHEAM

No. 96-1850.

569 N.W.2d 820 (1997)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Samuel Ellis CHEATHEAM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerald W. Kinnamon of Kinnamon, Kinnamon, Russo & Meyer, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Susan M. Crawford, Assistant Attorney General, and J. Patrick White, County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and SNELL, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

At issue in the present case is whether the district court may consider a juvenile record, pursuant to Iowa Code section 232.55(2) (1995),1 when sentencing a defendant for multiple convictions where one of the convictions is a serious or simple misdemeanor. The defendant argues the district court may not do so. We disagree and affirm.

The defendant, Samuel Cheatheam, was an inmate at the Iowa Medical and Classification...

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