Summary
concluding the applicant was entitled to reinstatement of a PCR action that had been dismissed eight years earlier under rule 1.944 due to the ineffective assistance of PCR counsel, which resulted in structural error
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No. 13–1619.
10-14-2015
John Lee HRBEK, Applicant–Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Respondent–Appellee.
Philip B. Mears of Mears Law Office, Iowa City, for appellant. John Lee Hrbek, Anamosa, pro se. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Tyler J. Buller, Assistant Attorney General, Matthew Wilber, County Attorney, and Margaret Popp–Reyes, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee State.
DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION
Reversed and Remanded.