State Of Iowa Vs. Raymond Scott Baines

• Court: Supreme Court of Iowa
• Decided: November 14, 2008
• Docket: 07–0697
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA

No. 07–0697

Filed November 14, 2008

STATE OF IOWA,

Appellant,

vs.

RAYMOND SCOTT BAINES,

Appellee. ________________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Johnson County, Stephen

C. Gerard, II, Judge.

The State appeals a district court ruling that the special sentencing

provisions of Iowa Code section 903B.2 are unconstitutional.

JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION AFFIRMED. SENTENCE AFFIRMED IN

PART AND VACATED IN PART; CASE REMANDED FOR

RESENTENCING.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Elisabeth S. Reynoldson,

Assistant Attorney General, Janet M. Lyness, County Attorney, and

Deborah Farmer Minot and Anne M. Lahey, Assistant County Attorneys,

for appellant.

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Patricia Reynolds,

Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellee. 2

PER CURIAM.

The State appeals the district court’s ruling, in which the court

refused to impose the special sentence provisions of Iowa Code section

903B.2 (Supp. 2005) on Raymond Scott Baines, who had been convicted

of one count of indecent exposure under chapter 709 and one count of

indecent exposure in violation of an Iowa City ordinance. The district

court found the sentencing statute was “illegal and unconstitutional.” In this case, the court is asked to decide whether the special sentencing

provisions of Iowa Code section 903B.2 violate the United States

Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, the

separation-of-powers doctrine, and the Equal Protection Clauses of the

United States and Iowa Constitutions.

Other than the identity of the defendant, the facts in this appeal

are identical to those presented in a companion case, State v. Wade, __

N.W.2d __ (Iowa 2008). The applicable legal principles are also the same.

Based upon the reasoning contained in Wade, we find that Iowa Code

section 903B.2 is neither illegal nor unconstitutional. Therefore, we

remand this case with instructions that the sentence under section

903B.2 be imposed. JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION AFFIRMED. SENTENCE

AFFIRMED IN PART AND VACATED IN PART; CASE REMANDED FOR

All justices concur except Streit, J., who takes no part.

This opinion shall not be published.