Cooper v. State

HARRIS, Justice.

The petitioner brings consolidated appeals from the district court’s denial of two separate applications for postconviction relief. His conviction was affirmed on a direct appeal in an unpublished opinion. See State v. Cooper, 334 N.W.2d 368 (Iowa Ct.App.1982). The petitioner’s principal claim on this appeal is that he was denied effective assistance of counsel because of a failure to challenge the system of apportioning the jury which in 1981 convicted him of first degree robbery. We affirm.

I. In his first postconviction petition Cooper claimed he was denied his sixth…