Opinion ID: 2068903
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Heading: The first question posed is whether defendant preserved error for appellate review.

Text: In State v. Untiedt, 224 N.W.2d 1 (Iowa, 1974), this court said: [W]e now hold that where, as here, a defendant's pretrial suppression motion is overruled, appellate review will be accorded on proper assignment as to the record then made despite absence of testimonial objection by defendant in course of trial. Therefore, if defendant had remained silent regarding the offer in evidence of Exhibit 5 the overruling of his pretrial suppression motion would suffice for purpose of appellate review on the record then made. But here defense counsel, in course of trial, ultimately stated defendant had no objection to the offered exhibit. Although not so expressed this might denote a withdrawal of any objection to the exhibit which constituted the basis for defendant's pretrial suppression motion. On the other hand, it could be reasonably construed as meaning defendant stood on the suppression-related record and elected to enter no further trial objection. We need not, however, resolve the above countering views.