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Redding v. State

Citations

  • 274 N.W.2d 315
  • 1979 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 884

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  • deliberate and inexcusable failure to pursue claims for relief and appeal bars postconviction action
  • “Under [the Iowa Code], multiple grievances of a convicted defendant should be submitted in a unitary action rather than piecemeal in successive actions.”
  • “Failure to appeal bars relief in a postconviction action . . . only as to factual and legal contentions which the postconviction applicant . . . deliberately and inexcusably failed to pursue on appeal.”

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Judges: McCormick, Rees, McCor-mick, Allbee, McGiverin, Larson

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