State of Iowa v. Darion Aubrea Love

I join in the court’s well-reasoned opinion but write separately to set forth my views on how the court’s decision should be implemented in our district courts in the future.

We have recently decided a series of multiplicity cases, presenting the question whether the defendant committed one or *726more than one criminal act. See State v. Ross, 845 N.W.2d 692, 698 (Iowa 2014); State v. Copenhaver, 844 N.W.2d 442, 447 (Iowa 2014); State v. Gines, 844 N.W.2d 437, 441 (Iowa 2014); State v. Velez, 829 N.W.2d 572, 577 (Iowa 2013). Gines and Velez, however, involved guilty pleas in which the only issue…