Opinion
No. 1-752 / 00-696.
Filed December 28, 2001.
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Jones County, DAVID M. REMLEY, Judge.
Rodney Gray appeals from the denial of his postconviction relief application. AFFIRMED.
Ronald L. Ricklefs, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Jean C. Pettinger, Assistant Attorney General, Connie S. Ricklefs, County Attorney, and Robert Hruska, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.
Considered by VOGEL, P. J., and MILLER and EISENHAUER, JJ.
Rodney Gray appeals from the denial of his postconviction relief application. He contends the trial court erred in dismissing his ineffective assistance of counsel claim. He alleges trial counsel was ineffective in failing to move to suppress a journal seized at the jail. Because Gray did not preserve error on this issue by raising it in his direct appeal, and does not show good cause for this failure, we affirm the district court. See Berryhill v. State, 603 N.W.2d 243, 245 (Iowa 1999) ("[A]ny claim not properly raised on direct appeal may not be litigated in a postconviction relief action unless sufficient reason or cause is shown for not previously raising the claim, and actual prejudice resulted from the claim of error.")
AFFIRMED.