State of Iowa v. Jamar Anthony Jackson

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 13-0703
Filed August 13, 2014
STATE OF IOWA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
vs.
JAMAR ANTHONY JACKSON,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Scott County, Mary E. Howes
(plea) and Nancy S. Tabor (sentencing), Judges.
Jamar Anthony Jackson appeals the judgment and conviction entered
after he pled guilty to conspiracy to commit a forcible felony and accessory after
the fact. AFFIRMED.
Lauren M. Phelps, Davenport, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kyle Hanson, Assistant Attorney
General, Michael J. Walton, County Attorney, and Amy Devine, Assistant County
Attorney, for appellee.
Considered by Danilson, C.J., Potterfield, J., and Sackett, S.J.* Tabor, J.,
takes no part.
*Senior judge assigned by order pursuant to Iowa Code section 602.9206 (2013).
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SACKETT, S.J.
Jamar Anthony Jackson appeals the judgment and conviction entered
after he pled guilty to conspiracy to commit a forcible felony and accessory after
the fact. He contends the trial court failed to adequately inform him of the rights
he would give up by pleading guilty and erred in accepting the plea. He also
contends he received ineffective assistance of counsel.
The entry of a guilty plea and its acceptance is a final adjudication of a
defendant’s guilt. State v. LaRue, 619 N.W.2d 395, 397 (Iowa 2000). By
pleading guilty, a defendant waives any constitutional challenge that would
undermine the conviction, with five recognized exceptions. Id. A defendant
retains the ability to challenge insufficient trial information or facial constitutional
vagueness of the statute, claim a plea was uninformed or involuntary, bring a
double jeopardy claim, challenge the sentencing statute, and claim ineffective
assistance of counsel that calls into question the voluntariness of the plea. Id.
He challenges only the last of these on appeal, arguing counsel was ineffective in
failing to challenge the court’s inadequate plea colloquy. Because the record is
not adequately developed to allow us to consider the merits of this claim on direct
appeal, we affirm Jackson’s conviction and preserve his ineffective-assistance
claims for further development during postconviction proceedings. See State v.
Straw, 709 N.W.2d 128, 133 (Iowa 2006).
AFFIRMED.