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Zachary Alfred Hayes
v.
State of Iowa
Appellant
Zachary Alfred Hayes
Appellee
State of Iowa
Attorney for the Appellant
Leslie G. Peters
Attorney for the Appellee
Martha E. Trout and Scott Brown, Assistant Attorneys General
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Cedar County, Joel W. Barrows, Judge. AFFIRMED. Considered by Bower, C.J., Schumacher, J., and Blane, S.J. Buller, J., takes no part. Opinion by Schumacher, J. (7 pages)
Zachary Hayes appeals the district court’s denial of his application for postconviction relief. He asserts ineffective assistance of trial counsel, arguing counsel failed to challenge the sufficiency of the evidence on one count and failed to request jury instructions on lesser-included offenses. OPINION HOLDS: As Hayes failed to show ineffective assistance of counsel regarding the sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim and failed to preserve error on the jury-instructions claim, we affirm the district court’s denial of the application for postconviction relief. And we do not address the ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel.
