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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA

No. 2-961 / 11-1494
Filed February 27, 2013


TYRONE SMITH,
Applicant-Appellant,

vs.

STATE OF IOWA,
Respondent-Appellee.
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County, James C. Bauch, Judge.

A postconviction relief applicant contends that his original trial counsel was ineffective in failing to seek dismissal of the charges against him on speedy trial grounds.  AFFIRMED.


Lauren M. Phelps, Davenport, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Bridget A. Chambers, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and Kimberly Griffith, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee State.


Considered by Eisenhauer, C.J., and Vogel and Vaitheswaran, JJ.
VAITHESWARAN, J.
Tyrone Smith was found guilty of several crimes.  See State v. Smith, No. 08-0865, 2009 WL 2952036, at *1 (Iowa Ct. App. Sept. 2, 2009).  On appeal, Smith raised a number of issues, including a contention that his trial attorney was ineffective in failing to seek dismissal on speedy trial grounds.  Id.  This court affirmed Smith

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