Jerod Kurt Miller
v.
State of Iowa
Appellant
Jerod Kurt Miller
Appellee
State of Iowa
Attorney for the Appellant
Robert A. Nading, II
Attorney for the Appellee
Zachary Miller, Assistant Attorney General
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Wright County, Blake H. Norman, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered without oral argument by Schumacher, P.J., and Badding and Chicchelly, JJ. Opinion by Badding, J. (15 pages)
Jerod Miller appeals the denial of his application for postconviction relief, claiming the district court erred in finding that it was not bound by unanswered requests for admissions under Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510(2) and dismissing his claims for prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel. OPINION HOLDS: We affirm the district court’s denial of Miller’s postconviction relief application. The court correctly determined that it was not bound by the State’s defaulted admissions that defense counsel was ineffective. We also agree with the court that Miller failed to prove his prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective-assistance claims.
