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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 0-490 / 09-0961 Filed November 24, 2010 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. JAMES ALAN CHRISTENSEN, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Woodbury1 County, Arthur E. Gamble, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for second-degree sexual abuse by aiding or abetting another. AFFIRMED.

Susan R. Stockdale, Des Moines, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Sheryl A. Soich, Andrew B. Prosser, and Becky Goettsch, Assistant Attorneys General, and Patrick Jennings, County Attorney, for appellee.

Heard by Vaitheswaran, P.J., Eisenhauer and Danilson, JJ. Tabor, J., takes no part.

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Upon order of change of venue from Union County.

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EISENHAUER, J. James Christensen appeals his conviction for second-degree sexual abuse by aiding or abetting another, arguing: (1) the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction; (2) the verdict is contrary to the weight of the evidence; (3) the court erred in excluding evidence; and (4) the court erred in not granting a mistrial. We affirm. I. Insufficient Evidence. Christensen, the chief of police, and Sickels, the assistant chief of police, were co-defendants at trial. A jury found Sickels guilty of second-degree sexual abuse of L.S. and found Christensen guilty of second-degree sexual abuse of L.S. by aiding and abetting. Christensen argues the States evidence was

insufficient to support his conviction. Under Iowa law, one who aids and abets a crime is charged, tried and punished as a principal. Iowa Code

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