State v. Ashley

LARSON, Justice.

Roger Dale Ashley pled guilty to first-degree theft, Iowa Code §§ 714.1(2), (3); 714.2(1) (1987), and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term not to exceed ten years. He claims that the court erred at sentencing by (1) refusing to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea on the ground that the State had breached an agreement not to prosecute him; and (2) admitting evidence of other, unproven crimes. The appeal was initially referred to the court of appeals, which affirmed Ashley’s conviction by an evenly divided vote. See Iowa Code § 602.5106(1). On further review of that…