STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. VERONICA CHARLSON, Defendant-Appellant.

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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 3-188 / 12-1320 Filed March 13, 2013 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. VERONICA CHARLSON, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Story County, Steven P. Van Marel, District Associate Judge. The defendant appeals the sentence entered following her plea of guilty to assault causing bodily injury. AFFIRMED. Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Robert Ranschau, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Darrel Mullins, Assistant Attorney General, Stephen Holmes, County Attorney, and Keisha Creitsinger, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee. Considered by Vaitheswaran, P.J., and Tabor and Mullins, JJ. 2 MULLINS, J. Veronica Charlson appeals her sentence following her plea of guilty to one count of assault causing bodily injury, in violation of Iowa Code sections 708.1 and 708.2(2) (2011). Charlson asserts the district court abused its discretion when it imposed a sentence of one year in jail, the maximum sentence for the offense, instead of accepting one of the sentencing recommendations made by the parties one year in jail with all but fifteen or thirty days suspended. Upon our review of the record and the briefs, we find no abuse of discretion in the district court s sentencing decision. The sentence imposed was within the statutory maximum, and the court articulated and weighed all the relevant factors in determining the sentence. State v. Barnes, 791 N.W.2d 817, 827 28 (Iowa 2010). We therefore affirm Charlson s conviction and sentence pursuant to Iowa Court Rule 21.29(1)(a) and (e). AFFIRMED.

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