State v. Shearon
Supreme Court of Iowa
1Opinion of the Court
NEUMAN, Justice.
This is an appeal by defendant, Michael Shearon, from his conviction for lascivious acts with a child. He urges three grounds for reversal: (1) his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the district court’s failure to follow statutory procedures required for the use of closed-circuit testimony for a child witness; (2) the district court erroneously refused to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of indecent contact with a child; and (3) the court imposed an illegal sentence when it ordered Shearon to undergo DNA profiling. Finding no merit in any of…
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