Opinion
No. 14–2096.
10-14-2015
STATE of Iowa, Plaintiff–Appellee, v. Travis Allen HOPPE, Defendant–Appellant.
John J. Bishop, Cedar Rapids, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik and Mary A. Triick, Assistant Attorneys General, Jerry Vander Sanden, County Attorney, and Jason Burns and Harold Denton, Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.
John J. Bishop, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik and Mary A. Triick, Assistant Attorneys General, Jerry Vander Sanden, County Attorney, and Jason Burns and Harold Denton, Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.
Opinion
McDONALD, Judge.
The defendant pleaded guilty to and was convicted of theft in the first degree, in violation of Iowa Code sections 714.1(1) and 714.2(1) (2013), and was sentenced to an indeterminate term of incarceration not to exceed ten years. On appeal, he contends his plea counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation by failing to adequately investigate the case prior to the defendant's guilty plea. The defendant and the State agree the appellate record is insufficient to resolve this claim and ask that we preserve this claim for postconviction-relief proceedings. We affirm the defendant's conviction and preserve his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for postconviction-relief proceedings. See State v. Johnson, 784 N.W.2d 192, 198 (Iowa 2010) (determining a court “must preserve” an ineffective assistance claim if the record is inadequate to address it on direct appeal).