STATE v. THOMPSON

No. 19-1259.

954 N.W.2d 402 (2021)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Howard J. THOMPSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 5, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent A. Simmons , Bettendorf, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Thomas J. Ogden , Assistant Attorney General, Michael Walton , County Attorney, and Nathan Repp and Jonathan Noble , Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.

McDonald, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Waterman, Mansfield, and Oxley, JJ., joined. McDermott, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in which Christensen, C.J., and Appel, J., joined.


Howard Thompson was convicted of two counts of attempting to obtain a prescription drug by deceit, as a habitual offender, in violation of Iowa Code section 155A.23(1) (2019), and one count of conspiracy to commit a nonforcible felony, in violation of Iowa Code section 706.3(2). Thompson raises two challenges in this direct appeal...

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