State v. Hack

NEUMAN, Justice.

The State charged defendant Kenneth Hack with third-degree sexual abuse. See Iowa Code § 709.4(2)(c)(1), (3), (4) (1993) (sex act with fourteen or fifteen year old by member of same household in position of authority more than six years older than victim). Hack subsequently entered a guilty plea to an amended charge of lascivious acts with a child. See Iowa Code § 709.8. His conviction was upheld, one judge dissenting, by our court of appeals. The case is now before us on further review.

The question is whether Hack’s plea and subsequent conviction resulted from the…