Opinion ID: 6220937
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Heading: The Issue on Remand.

Text: We described the underlying facts from Lilly’s trial and earlier procedural history of this case in the opinion filed in Lilly’s initial appeal and will forego restating them here. See State v. Lilly (Lilly I), 930 N.W.2d 293, 296–98 (Iowa 2019). Pertinent to this appeal are the facts that the parties developed on remand related to the only remaining issue in the case: Lilly’s fair-cross-section claim. In State v. Plain (Plain II), we defined the terms “jury pool” (the members of the community selected for jury duty and summoned and reporting to the courthouse), “jury panel” (the members of the pool directed to a particular courtroom to serve as possible jurors for a specific trial), and “jury” (the members of the panel actually selected for a specific trial), and will use the same definitions in this case. ___ N.W.2d ___, ___ (Iowa 2022). 4 Evidence offered at Lilly’s hearing on remand showed that of the people summoned who indicated their race on a summoned-juror questionnaire, one person marked “Other,” one marked “American,” one marked “Asian,” one marked “Japanese,” and one marked “White/Black.” Ultimately, none of the potential jurors in Lilly’s pool were African-American, and (thus) none of the members of Lilly’s jury were African-American. Lilly called only one witness at the hearing, the jury manager for Lee County, who testified about how the jury selection process worked in the county at the time of Lilly’s trial.