State v. Iowa District Court for Lee County

SCHULTZ, Justice.

The district court reviewed and reconsidered a six-month jail sentence, which had been imposed more than three years earlier, for contempt of court. In reconsidering the sentence, the court relied upon Iowa Code section 903.2 1 which allows the court to reconsider a misdemeanor sentence during a thirty-day period beginning on the date the person “begins to serve a sentence of confinement.” The original order provided that the sentence was to be consecutive to a sentence already being served in prison for a felony. The district court substituted a sentence to run concurrently…