Eric Wayne Dempsey v. State of Iowa

ZAGER, Justice.

Eric Dempsey appeals the denial of his petition for postconviction relief. He maintains he received ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of counsel’s failure to accurately inform him of the terms and potential sentencing outcomes of a first plea offer proposed by the State. He asserts that because counsel misinformed him of the terms of the first plea offer, he did not accept it. Thereafter, the State withdrew its first plea offer and made a second, less favorable plea offer, which Dempsey accepted. Upon our de novo review, we conclude that while counsel may have…