State of Iowa v. Richard Osmond McLachlan Jr.

MULLINS, Judge.

Richard McLachlan Jr. has appealed from a revised sentencing order entered by the district court on remand from our court. He claims (1) his prior conviction was vacated and could not be used to impose the second-or-subsequent-offender enhancement when resentencing him, and (2) the sentence imposed by the district court could not run consecutive to a prior vacated sentence. McLachlan has mis-characterized the status of the prior conviction and has misunderstood the legal significance of a revised sentencing order. For reasons explained below, we affirm.

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