STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. CHARLES F. UNERTL, JR., Defendant-Appellant.
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 9-232 / 08-1227
Filed April 8, 2009
STATE OF IOWA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
vs.
CHARLES F. UNERTL, JR.,
Defendant-Appellant.
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Delaware County, Alan L. Pearson,
Judge.
Defendant appeals from judgment and sentence entered upon his
conviction of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. AFFIRMED.
Paul D. Miller of Miller Law Office, Iowa City, for appellant.
Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney
General, and John Bernau, County Attorney, for appellee.
Considered by Sackett, C.J., and Potterfield and Mansfield, JJ.
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POTTERFIELD, J.
Charles Unertl Jr. appeals from judgment and sentence entered upon his
conviction of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse following a bench trial.
He asserts two claims of ineffective assistance of counsel: first, that counsel was
ineffective in failing to obtain a proper waiver of jury trial; second, that counsel
was ineffective in failing to object to improper rebuttal witness testimony. We
conclude the record is inadequate to resolve these claims and we, therefore,
preserve them for postconviction proceedings. See State v. Keller, 760 N.W.2d
451 (Iowa 2009).
AFFIRMED.
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