STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff, vs. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR HARRISON COUNTY, Defendant. STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. THOMAS MORGAN DONELSON, Defendant-Appellee.

State: Iowa

Court: Court of Appeals

Docket No: No. 6-813 / 05-1472

Case Date: 11/30/2006

Preview:IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 6-813 / 05-1472 Filed November 30, 2006 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff, vs. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR HARRISON COUNTY, Defendant. _________________________________ STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. THOMAS MORGAN DONELSON, Defendant-Appellee. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Harrison County, James M. Richardson, Judge. The State of Iowa challenges a district court's sentencing order concerning an habitual offender. WRIT SUSTAINED, SENTENCE VACATED, REMANDED FOR RESENTENCING. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Mary E. Tabor, Assistant Attorney General, Judson L. Frisk, County Attorney, and Susan Larson-Christensen, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant. Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Patricia Reynolds, Assistant Appellate Defender for appellee. Joel Niebaum, Missouri Valley, for appellee. Considered by Mahan, P.J., and Miller and Vaitheswaran, JJ.

2 VAITHESWARAN, J. The State petitioned for a writ of certiorari, seeking resolution of a single issue: whether the district court erred in sentencing Thomas Donelson to an indeterminate five-year prison sentence on a conviction for operating while intoxicated (third offense) as an habitual offender. Iowa Code section 902.9(5) (2005), by its terms, precludes imposition of this prison term for habitual offenders. Iowa Code

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