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State of Iowa
v.
Jeremy Allen Bartenhagen
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Jeremy Allen Bartenhagen
Attorney for the Appellee
Anagha Dixit, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Elizabeth Araguas
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Muscatine County, Gary P. Strausser and Henry W. Latham II, Judges. AFFIRMED. Considered by Greer, P.J., and Ahlers and Buller, JJ. Opinion by Ahlers, J. (12 pages)
Jeremy Bartenhagen appeals his convictions from two separate cases, one convicting him of prohibited possession of ammunition and the other convicting him of driving while barred. He argues neither conviction is supported by sufficient evidence. In the driving-while-barred case, he also claims that the district court improperly admitted only a portion of the arresting officer’s body-camera recording, and that he should have been granted a mistrial or allowed to question the jurors after some jurors saw him escorted by jail officers to the courthouse. OPINION HOLDS: Because sufficient evidence supports both convictions, Bartenhagen never requested admission of the entire body-camera video, Bartenhagen was permitted to question jurors about seeing Bartenhagen escorted by jail officers, and the court did not abuse its discretion in denying a mistrial, we affirm Bartenhagen’s convictions in both cases.
