State v. Shipley

APPEL, Justice.

In this case, we are presented with an array of issues arising out of the admission of a certified abstract of the defendant’s driving record, which was created and maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT). The challenged abstract showed that the defendant’s driving privileges were revoked at the time of his arrest. The defendant maintains that admission of the abstract was in error as the record failed to meet statutory requirements for its admission and violated his rights to due process and confrontation. In addition, the defendant claims the admission of a…