State v. Westeen

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• holding counsel was not required to raise an issue that a competent attorney would have concluded was not worth raising
• noting counsel had been found ineffective for failing to raise an argument when “(1) there were no Iowa cases that would have foreclosed the argument counsel was faulted for not making; (2) a review of the statute ‘would have lent substantial weight’ to the defendant’s argument; and (3
• both holding that counsel was ineffective for not raising an issue of first impression

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