IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA
No. 19

- 1193 Filed April 15, 2020

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff

- Appellee,

vs. TASHIEYANA LORETTA ONEAL , Defendant

- Appellant.

________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County, Patrice J. Eich man , District Associate Judge.

The defendant appeals the sentence s imposed by the district court for her convictions of driving while barred and eluding. AFFIRMED.

John C. Heinicke of Kragnes & Associates, P.C. , Des Moines , for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Linda J. Hines , Assistant Attorney Gene ral, for appellee.

Considered by Bower, C.J. , and Greer and Ahlers, JJ.2

GREER , Judge

. Tashieyana ONeal appeals the sentences imposed for her convictions of driving while barred, an aggravated misdemeanor, and eluding, a serious misdemeanor. 1 After pleading guilty to the charges , 2 ONeal now asserts the trial court abused its discretion by sentencing her to six days in jail. We affirm. First, w e review sentencing decisions for an abuse of discretion. State v. Crooks , 911 N.W.2d 153, 161 (Io wa 2018). “We give sentencing decisions by a
trial court a strong presumption in their favor. ” State v. Hopkins , 860 N.W.2d 550, 553 (Iowa 2015).
De spite her complaint about a six

- day jail term, ONeal concedes she agreed
in writing to the “six days in jail on both counts concurrent to each other” sentencing recommendation that the trial court followed. Yet her only complaint is “that the
trial court abused its discret ion in imposing the concurrent six day jail sentence.” ONeal want s probation. Other than addressing the broad discretion of the court to enter sentencing terms, ONeal offers no details of how the court abused its
discretion. There are no allegations the State or the trial court departed from the terms of the plea agre ement. There are no allegations the trial court failed to recite the reasons for imposing the sentence. See State v. Cason , 532 N.W.2d 755,

1 Because ONeal’s sentencing occurred before July 1, 2019, amended Iowa Code section 814.6(1)(a)(3) (2019) (limiting appeals from guilty pleas) does not apply here. See State v. Macke , 933 N.W.2d 226, 228 (Iowa 2019) (“Iowa Code sections 814.6 and 814.7, a s amended, do not apply to a direct appeal from a judgment and sentence entered before July 1, 2019.”). 2 The signed plea agreement terms were a sentence of six days in jail on both counts, terms to run concurrently, a $315 fine with a 35% surcharge , a s uspended fine of $625 and the 35% surcharge , and all other companion charges dismissed

. And ONeal could serve he r jail term s in increments of fo rty

- eight hours.3

756

– 57 (Iowa 1995) (h olding t hat a sentencing court does not abuse its discretion for failing to state sufficient reasons for imposing a sentence if it “was merely giving eff ect to the parties ’ agreement”).
The bottom line is that the trial court “ merely g [ ave] effect to the parties’ agreement.” See i

d. ONeal s uggests six days in jail i s unreasonable and that instead probation i s appropriate. With no basis for her suggestion , we hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in giving effect to the parties’ agreement. See State v. Snyder

, 336 N.W.2d 728, 729 (Iowa 1983) ( holdin g the sentence appropriately reflected the parties’ agreement and thus was not the exercise of trial court discretion). We affirm the sentence of the trial court.
AFFIRMED.