Jeremy Joseph Saul v. State of Iowa


IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 17-0529 Filed February 20, 2019 JEREMY JOSEPH SAUL, Applicant-Appellant, vs. STATE OF IOWA, Respondent-Appellee. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Woodbury County, John D. Ackerman, Judge. Jeremy Saul appeals the summary disposition of his application for postconviction relief. AFFIRMED. Zachary S. Hindman of Mayne, Hindman, Daane & Parry, Sioux City (until withdrawal), and then Priscilla E. Forsyth, Sioux City, for appellant. Jeremy J. Saul, Leavenworth, Kansas, pro se. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Sharon K. Hall, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee State. Considered by Mullins, P.J., Bower, J., and Carr, S.J.* *Senior judge assigned by order pursuant to Iowa Code section 602.9206 (2019). 2 MULLINS, Presiding Judge. In August 2015, Jeremy Saul pled guilty to charges of felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance. Judgment and sentence were entered the same day. In October, he was charged with felon in possession of a firearm, additional drug charges, and carrying a dangerous weapon. In December, Saul was charged in federal court with possession of a firearm by a felon in relation to the acts that gave rise to the charges filed by the State in October. The State later dismissed its charges. In January 2016, Saul filed an application for postconviction relief, raising various claims related to the August 2015 plea. The State moved for summary disposition pursuant to Iowa Code section 822.6 (2016). Saul filed a supplemental application, in which he argued his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance in failing to (1) inform him of effects his guilty plea in a state criminal matter would have on sentencing in a federal criminal case and (2) file a motion to suppress evidence. The State responded with a supplemental motion for summary disposition. The court granted the State’s motion for summary disposition as to both claims. Saul appeals. He claims the supreme court’s ruling “that counsel has an obligation to inform his or her client of all the adverse immigration consequences that counsel would uncover,” Diaz v. State, 896 N.W.2d 723, 732 (Iowa 2017); see also Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010), should “be expanded to require that all criminal defense attorneys must advise all criminal defendants . . . of all certain and possible adverse collateral consequences of a guilty plea and conviction,” 3 namely that counsel should be required to advise a conviction could result in more severe punishment for future crimes. We decline Saul’s request to expand Diaz beyond its express terms and require that all defense attorneys advise criminal defendants that pleading guilty could have an effect on punishment for future crimes. A criminal defendant is not constitutionally entitled to a warning that if he is convicted, and sentenced, and after serving his time goes back to committing crimes, the fact of his having been convicted may expose him to a more severe punishment for his future crime than if it were a first offense. The warning is needless; everyone knows ...

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