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STATE v. FETNER

No. 19-1561.

959 N.W.2d 129 (2021)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. William Frank FETNER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 7, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Hollis , Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Thomas E. Bakke , Assistant Attorney General, and Carlyle D. Dalen , County Attorney, for appellee.

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

During sentencing, the defendant's counsel informed the district court that defendant was "not very consistent with taking his medications so the marijuana [the defendant] was using seems like basically a way to self-medicate for the anxiety that [the defendant] feels." In arguing for a suspended sentence, the defendant...

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