STATE v. CEASER

No. 97-1754.

585 N.W.2d 192 (1998)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Rodney Lee CEASER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Shellie L. Knipfer, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Robert P. Ewald, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and D. Raymond Walton, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and TERNUS, JJ.


TERNUS, Justice.

A jury found the defendant, Rodney Lee Ceaser, guilty of second-degree robbery, see Iowa Code §§ 711.1, .3 (1997), and the trial court sentenced him to a mandatory ten-year term of imprisonment, see id. §§ 902.9(3),.12. Ceaser appeals his conviction and sentence, contending (1) the trial court erroneously refused to instruct the jury on his claim of self-defense, and (2) Iowa Code section 902.12, which requires that...

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