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SCHMIDT v. STATE

No. 15-1408.

909 N.W.2d 778 (2018)

Jacob Lee SCHMIDT, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed March 23, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith , State Appellate Defender, and Martha J. Lucey , Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Sheryl Soich , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Erica A. Nichols Cook of the State Public Defender's Office, Des Moines, for amicus curiae Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School.

Lance W. Lange , Jesse Linebaugh , and Mitch G. Nass of Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP, Des Moines, for amici curiae The Innocence Network and The Innocence Project of Iowa.

An applicant filed a postconviction-relief action claiming he was actually innocent although he knowingly and voluntarily pled guilty to the charged crimes. He based his actual-innocence claim on a recantation by the victim. The district court granted the State's motion for summary dismissal/summary judgment, ruling the applicant...

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