Opinion ID: 2028488
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Heading: Waiver and Double Jeopardy.

Text: Wilkins urges that because the county attorney filed an amended charge of second-offense OWI following the district court's ruling, to which he ultimately pled guilty, the State has waived the issue argued on this appeal. In the alternative, she contends that the protection against double jeopardy precludes reinstatement of the original conviction and sentence for OWI, third offense. We reject both of these contentions. The county attorney's action in filing the amended charge was not voluntary because it was the product of the court's erroneous ruling in setting aside Wilkins' original conviction. See State v. Raim, 381 N.W.2d 635, 637 (Iowa 1986). Nor is the protection against double jeopardy implicated in regard to our reinstatement of the original conviction and sentence. This has been a single criminal proceeding involving the substitution of an erroneous judgment for a prior correct judgment and an appellate review correcting that error. See State v. Pexa, 574 N.W.2d 344, 347 (Iowa 1998). Our action is similar to the procedure that was sustained against a double-jeopardy challenge in State v. Iowa District Court, 464 N.W.2d 233, 236 (Iowa 1990).