Sims v. State

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

In this appeal from adverse ruling in a second postconviction relief proceeding, Sims asserts that three different attorneys who represented him respectively at trial, in his first postconviction action, and on appeal from that ruling, were all ineffective. We affirm.

We adversely disposed of Sims’ direct appeal from judgment and sentence for first-degree murder, consolidated with his first postconviction appeal, in State v. Sims, 239 N.W.2d 550, 556 (Iowa 1976). He then commenced a federal habeas corpus action raising, inter alia, the issue of his trial counsel’s…