State of Iowa v. Darrell Allen Showens

MANSFIELD, Justice.

A registered sex offender was arrested after sitting on a bench facing a public library. It was the middle of the day and he had been there approximately forty-five minutes. We must decide whether sufficient evidence exists to support the defendant’s conviction by the district court for loitering within 300 feet of a public library in violation of Iowa Code section 692A.113(l)(p) (2011). Additionally, we are asked to decide whether the defendant’s counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge the constitutionality of this criminal statute on vagueness grounds.

For the…