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SCOTT v. STATE

No. 06-2084.

764 N.W.2d 551 (2009)

William C. SCOTT, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 17, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy B.A. Feitelson of Feitelson Law, L.L.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and Kimberly Griffith, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Prior report: Iowa App., 742 N.W.2d 606.

PER CURIAM:

In 2006, petitioner William Scott filed an application for postconviction relief challenging his 1991 conviction for first-degree murder. Scott claimed that his conviction was contrary to our recent holding in State v. Heemstra, 721 N.W.2d 549 (Iowa 2006). In Heemstra this court stated that its ruling applied only in cases on direct appeal where the claim was preserved in the district court. Scott filed...

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