Supreme Court of Iowa, 2013

The court affirmed Null’s convictions and rejected his ineffective-assistance challenges concerning the plea colloquy and withdrawal of his juvenile-transfer motion. It held that the Iowa Constitution requires individualized consideration of youth before imposing a lengthy term-of-years sentence that requires a…

The court held that Finney's ineffective-assistance challenge to his guilty plea failed because the entire record, particularly the minutes of testimony, supplied an objective factual basis for attempted murder even though the plea colloquy did not identify that evidence.