Cornell v. State

HARRIS, Justice.

In this postconviction proceeding the petitioner, Robert Allan Cornell, challenges his first-degree murder conviction which we affirmed in State v. Cornell, 266 N.W. 2d 15 (Iowa 1978) cert. denied Cornell v. Iowa, 439 U.S. 947, 99 S.Ct. 340, 58 L.Ed.2d 338 (1978). Following the filing of that opinion and prior to this proceeding Cornell unsuccessfully challenged his conviction by several proceedings in federal court. See Cornell v. Iowa, 628 F.2d 1044 (8th Cir. 1980) cert. denied 449 U.S. 1126, 101 S.Ct. 944, 67 L.Ed.2d 112 (1981). In the present case the district court denied…