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191259P.pdf   06/26/2020  Joseph Stephen  v.  Cornell Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1259
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Kelly and Melloy, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. The evidence was sufficient to support defendant's 
   state drug convictions and the convictions did not violate the Fourteenth 
   Amendment; claims of ineffective assistance of counsel regarding the 
   filing of motions to dismiss the indictment and suppress evidence 
   rejected; claim counsel was ineffective in pre-trial investigation 
   rejected; Brady claim rejected; an Iowa court's imposition of both the 
   habitual offender and second or subsequent offense enhancements to 
   Stephen's sentence did not violate the Fifth Amendment as Iowa courts have 
   held the enhancements were to apply in tandem; Eighth Amendment argument 
   against the tandem imposition was procedurally defaulted.