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STATE v. HURLBUT

No. 20-0630.

970 N.W.2d 259 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Randall Lee HURLBUT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 11, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, and Stephan J. Japuntich , Assistant Appellant Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Timothy M. Hau , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

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

When the trial date for the misdemeanor defendant in this case finally arrived, he did not. The district court determined that the trial could proceed in his absence, and the jury found him guilty. In this appeal, we must decide whether a court may conduct a criminal trial on a misdemeanor criminal charge without the defendant...

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