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State of Iowa
v.
Daniel Wayne Ockenfels
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Daniel Wayne Ockenfels
Attorney for the Appellee
Timothy M. Hau, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Kevin Hobbs
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, Scott D. Rosenberg and Robert B. Hanson, Judges, and Becky Goettsch, District Associate Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Doyle, P.J., and Tabor and Schumacher, JJ. Opinion by Doyle, P.J. (6 pages)
Daniel Ockenfels appeals his convictions after a jury found him guilty on four charges—driving while barred, eluding law enforcement, disarming a police officer, and assault on a police officer while using or displaying a dangerous weapon. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his convictions for disarming a peace officer and assault on a peace officer while using or displaying a dangerous weapon. He also claims ineffective assistance of trial counsel. OPINION HOLDS: Although perhaps another factfinder may have judged the evidence differently, substantial evidence supports the jury’s verdicts when viewed in the light most favorable to the State. We reject Ockenfels’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.
