STATE v. McCULLAH

No. 08-0051.

787 N.W.2d 90 (2010)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Jody Nolan McCULLAH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Jason B. Shaw and Thomas J. Gaul, Assistant Appellate Defenders, for appellant, and Jody McCullah, Fort Madison, pro se.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, John Sarcone, County Attorney, and Jeffrey Noble, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.


HECHT, Justice.

In a fight that began when a Polk County jail inmate attacked one officer and was subdued by several others, the inmate and the officers were left bloodied and injured. The inmate was charged with and convicted of four counts of inmate assault in violation of Iowa Code section 708.3B (2005). We are asked to determine whether a violation of section 708.3B requires that, as a result of an assault or other specified act by an inmate, a jail employee come...

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