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STATE v. PLAIN

No. 20-1000.

969 N.W.2d 293 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Kevin PLAIN Sr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed January 21, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Dickey (argued) of Dickey, Campbell, and Sahag Law Firm, PLC, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Louis S. Sloven (argued), Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

David S. Walker (argued), Windsor Heights, and Russell E. Lovell, II , Des Moines, for amicus curiae NAACP.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.

A jury in Black Hawk County found Kevin Plain guilty of harassment in the first degree. Plain, an African-American, appealed his conviction, arguing that his right to an impartial jury under the United States Constitution and the Iowa Constitution had been violated because his jury panel contained only one African-American out...

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