State of Iowa v. Jonathan Q. Adams

HECHT, Justice.

After his vehicle collided with and killed a bicyclist, the defendant was convicted of homicide by vehicle, operating while intoxicated, and leaving the scene of an accident. He appealed on several grounds, and the court of appeals concluded his convictions were supported by sufficient evidence but remanded for a sentencing correction. We granted further review to determine whether the State must prove in a prosecution under Iowa Code section 707.6A(1) *367(2007) that the defendant’s intoxication was a proximate cause of the victim’s death and, if so, whether the defendant’s trial…