Brittany Rae Beek
v.
State of Iowa
Appellant
Brittany Rae Beek
Appellee
State of Iowa
Attorney for the Appellant
Travis M. Visser-Armbrust
Attorney for the Appellee
Kyle Hanson, Assistant Attorney General
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
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Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Floyd County, Christopher C. Foy, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Bower, C.J., Schumacher, J., and Potterfield, S.J. Opinion by Potterfield, S.J. (10 pages)
Brittany Beek appeals the denial of her application for postconviction relief (PCR). She challenges the district court’s ruling, arguing it should have found she received ineffective assistance of trial counsel and granted her application. On appeal, Beek (1) maintains trial counsel breached an essential duty when she failed to object to improper vouching testimony by one of the State’s experts and (2) challenges counsel’s strategy as it pertained to confronting the complaining witnesses at the underlying criminal trial. OPINION HOLDS: We agree with the district court that Beek failed to prove her claims of ineffective assistance. We affirm the denial of her PCR application.
