Michael Howard Lang
v.
State of Iowa
Appellant
Michael Howard Lang
Appellee
State of Iowa
Attorney for the Appellant
Rees Conrad Douglas
Attorney for the Appellee
Sheryl Soich, Assistant Attorney General
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
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Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Woodbury County, Edward A. Jacobson, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Potterfield, P.J., and Tabor and Bower, JJ. Opinion by Bower, J. (9 pages)
Michael Lang appeals on multiple grounds the district court’s dismissal of his application for postconviction relief filed in 2016 and his 2017 supplemental application. OPINION HOLDS: Lang claims structural error in the court’s decision, but the record is inadequate for us to evaluate this claim. We find most of Lang’s claims are time-barred, have been previously decided, or are otherwise not properly before this court. We find the new evidence challenging hair analysis at trial would not have changed the result of the trial. We affirm.
