State v. Ayers

LAVORATO, Justice.

A jury convicted Cyrus Tao Tai Chi Ayers of willful injury, while using a dangerous weapon, and eluding. The district court sentenced Ayers to an indeterminate ten-year prison term on the willful injury conviction and ordered him to serve at least five years of the sentence imposed because willful injury is a forcible felony. See Iowa Code §§ 708.4, 702.11, 902.7 (1997); State v. Wallace, 475 N.W.2d 197, 202 (Iowa 1991). The court also imposed a concurrent indeterminate two-year prison term on the eluding charge. See Iowa Code §§ 321.279, 903.1(2). In addition, the court…