State v. McCullah

HECHT, Justice.

In a fight that began when a Polk County jail inmate attacked one officer and was subdued by several others, the inmate and the officers were left bloodied and injured. The inmate was charged with and convicted of four counts of inmate assault in violation of Iowa Code section 708.3B (2005). We are asked to determine whether a violation of section 708.3B requires that, as a result of an assault or other specified act by an inmate, a jail employee come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, or feces of an inmate. Because we conclude a conviction under the statute may…