State v. Rubino

NEUMAN, Justice.

We granted further review to consider the State’s challenge to a court of appeals decision which reversed defendant’s conviction for first-degree burglary because of counsel’s failure to appear and advocate on his behalf at a “reverse waiver” hearing. See Iowa Code §§ 803.6, 232.8 (1995) (granting district court jurisdiction over juveniles sixteen years or older charged with committing a forcible felony and authorizing transfer to juvenile court in appropriate cases). We agree — and the State concedes — that the defendant, who was just days shy of his eighteenth birthday when…