Johnny Lee Johnson, applicant-appellee/cross-appellant v. State of Iowa, respondent-appellant/cross-appellee.

The State appeals from the postconviction court’s grant of Johnny Johnson’s application for postconviction relief, which vacated his two convictions for first-degree murder and ordered a new trial. After finding trial counsel breached an essential duty by not objecting to Johnson being in leg shackles, the postconviction court then shifted the burden onto the State to prove — beyond a reasonable doubt — the shackling did not contribute to the guilty verdict. Within the ineffective-assistance-of-counsel framework, and citing Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d…