STATE v. MOTT

No. 00-0518.

635 N.W.2d 301 (2001)

STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Harlan J. MOTT, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

May 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Martha J. Lucey, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Robert P. Ewald, Assistant Attorney General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Jim Ward, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by SACKETT, C.J., HUITINK and STREIT, JJ.


SACKETT, Chief Judge.

Defendant appellant Harlan Mott, Jr., appeals his conviction for assault causing serious injury, in violation of Iowa Code section 708.2(4) (1999). Defendant's sole issue on appeal is that his trial attorney was ineffective in not requesting instructions on proximate, intervening and superseding cause. The defendant contends these instructions were warranted because there was a question as to whether...

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