State v. Wilson

LARSON, Justice.

This appellant challenges the sentencing proceedings in his case on the ground the trial court failed to state the reasons for the sentence imposed as required by Iowa R.Crim.P. 22(3)(d). The State concedes that the sentence must be vacated and the case remanded for resen-tencing for that reason and for the additional reason that the sentencing court erroneously imposed an indeterminate sentence rather than one for a specific term as required by section 903.1, The Code. While conceding error here, the State urges us to require in all future cases that a defendant raise any…