State of Iowa
v.
Justin M. Woods
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Justin M. Woods
Attorney for the Appellee
Tyler J. Buller, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Taryn R. McCarthy
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Scott County, Mary E. Howes, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Tabor, P.J., and Mullins and Schumacher, JJ. Opinion by Mullins, J. (3 pages)
Justin Woods appeals his conviction, following a guilty plea, of manufacturing, delivering, or possessing methamphetamine with the intent to manufacture or deliver, claiming his counsel rendered ineffective assistance in failing to move for suppression of evidence obtained as an allegedly unconstitutional seizure. OPINION HOLDS: We find the record inadequate to determine whether counsel failed to perform an essential duty or prejudice resulted. We therefore affirm Woods’s conviction but preserve his ineffective-assistance claim for a possible postconviction-relief proceeding.
