STATE v. SUTTON

No. 13-0810.

853 N.W.2d 284 (2014)

STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter Scott SUTTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

May 14, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Unes J. Booth of Booth Law Firm, Osceola, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik , Assistant Attorney General, and Michelle Rivera , County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by DANILSON, C.J., and VAITHESWARAN and MULLINS, JJ.


MULLINS, J.

Walter Sutton appeals his conviction for public intoxication asserting his written guilty plea was invalid and his counsel was ineffective in failing to file a motion in arrest of judgment based on the lack of a factual basis for his plea and the court's failure to ensure he understood the nature of the charge. Because we find a factual basis to support the guilty plea and that the written record established Sutton understood the nature of the charge,...

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