CASE STATEMENT

 

No. 08-0051

 

Polk County No. FECR211222

 

 

STATE OF IOWA,

Plaintiff-Appellee-Resister,

 

vs.

 

JODY NOLAN MCCULLAH,

          Defendant-Appellant-Applicant.

 

Court of Appeals opinion writer: Mahan, P.J.

 

Trial Judge: Eliza Ovrom

 

 

Appellate Counsel:

Tomas Rodriguez, State Appellate Defender, and Jason B. Shaw and Thomas J. Gaul, Assistant Appellate Defenders, for appellant and Jody McCullah, Fort Madison, pro se.

 

          Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, John Sarcone, County Attorney, and Jeffrey Noble, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

 

Trial Counsel:

          Paul White, Assistant Public Defender, until withdrawal and then Phil Reser, Assistant Juvenile Public Defender, as standby counsel for appellant.

 

          Jeffrey Noble, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

 

Ready date: 12-29-08  

 

General case description: The defendant appeals from his convictions for one count of escape and four counts of inmate assault. He argues: (1) the record contains insufficient evidence to support his convictions for inmate assault, and (2) the district court violated his Sixth Amendment right to represent himself when the court failed to respond to and/or denied his requests to proceed pro se.