Origer v. State

DONIELSON, Presiding Judge.

The State appeals from a judgment of the district court reversing and remanding the defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder on the ground that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance.

The defendant, Samuel Jerome Origer, was a known drug user and cocaine dealer in the Iowa Falls area for “the Greeks,” Zois and Aris Sklavenitis, several of the area’s biggest drug dealers. Robb Johnson was a farmer and mid-level cocaine dealer for the Greeks. Johnson would receive weekly shipments of cocaine from the Greeks and then distribute his cocaine to several…