RHOADES v. STATE

No. 12-0180.

848 N.W.2d 22 (2014)

Nick RHOADES, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 13, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher R. Clark and Scott A. Schoettes of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, and Joseph C. Glazebrook and Dan L. Johnston of Glazebrook & Moe, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Kevin R. Cmelik , Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson , County Attorney, and Kimberly A. Griffith , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Earl B. Kavanaugh of Harrison & Dietz-Kilen, P.L.C., Des Moines, and Tracy L. Welsh , New York, New York, for amicus curiae National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, the Center for HIV Law and Policy, and HIV Law Project.


WIGGINS, Justice.

A defendant brings a claim alleging his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel related to the defendant's guilty plea to the crime of criminal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in violation of Iowa Code section 709C.1 (2007).1 The district court disagreed and dismissed the defendant's postconviction relief action. The defendant appealed and we transferred the case to our court of...

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