Phouc Nguyen v. State

CADY, Justice.

In this appeal, we primarily consider whether trial counsel’s failure to object to prosecutorial misconduct condemned in State v. Graves, 668 N.W.2d 860 (Iowa 2003), resulted in prejudice sufficient to support postconviction relief. The district court granted postconviction relief. It found that questions the prosecutor asked the defendant during cross-examination in a murder case involving the defense theory of mistaken identity, which required the defendant to answer whether specific State’s witnesses to the incident were either lying or mistaken, resulted in prejudice and…