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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 8-178 / 07-1056 Filed May 14, 2008

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. ERICKA ROBERTA BARNES, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, Joel D. Novak (Disposition) and Michael D. Huppert (Sentencing), Judges.

Defendant appeals from her judgment and sentence for willful injury. AFFIRMED.

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Robert Ranschau, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Elisabeth Reynoldson, Assistant Attorney General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Frank Severino, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by Sackett, C.J., and Vogel and Vaitheswaran, JJ.

2 VAITHESWARAN, J. Fifteen-year-old Ericka Barnes was charged with a crime arising from the assault of a police officer following a high school basketball game. The juvenile court transferred jurisdiction to the district court for prosecution as a youthful offender. See State v. Iowa Dist. Ct., 616 N.W.2d 575, 580 (Iowa 2000)

(explaining youthful offender status and implications for sentencing). Following the transfer, Barnes pled guilty to willful injury resulting in serious injury. Iowa Code

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