STATE v. ANDERSON

No. 99-0297.

618 N.W.2d 369 (2000)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Thomas J. ANDERSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 11, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Richter and Matthew D. Wilber, Council Bluffs, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Karen Doland, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey L. Larson, County Attorney, and Kevin B. Struve, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Considered en banc.


TERNUS, Justice.

The defendant, Thomas Anderson, was convicted of solicitation of a felony after he accepted cocaine as payment on a client's legal bill. See Iowa Code § 705.1 (1997). On appeal he raises numerous constitutional, evidentiary, and instructional errors. We find dispositive, however, his claim that the trial court erred in failing to grant his motion for judgment of acquittal. Because we think there is insufficient evidence to prove the solicitation...

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