Opinion ID: 2177201
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Heading: Failure to Lodge Double Jeopardy Objections.

Text: Several years after applicant's criminal trial, we held under similar facts and charges that the second-degree sexual abuse was a lesser included offense of kidnapping in the first degree. We therefore reversed the sexual abuse conviction under the mandate of Iowa Code section 701.9 (No person shall be convicted of a public offense which is necessarily included in another public offense of which the person is convicted.). State v. Whitfield, 315 N.W.2d 753, 755 (Iowa 1982). In two later cases we indicated that if the State charged and proved separate and distinct sexual abuse incidents to support the greater charge and the lesser charge, separate convictions might lie. Nonetheless, we followed Whitfield because in both cases the prosecution was treated by all concerned as a single episode. State v. Newman, 326 N.W.2d at 793; State v. Folck, 325 N.W.2d 368, 375-76 (Iowa 1982). This case falls squarely within the Whitfield holding and the section 701.9 prohibition. The sentence was in violation of state law. See Iowa Code § 663A.2(1). We now correct it by nullifying the judgment and sentence for second-degree sexual abuse. See State v. Davis, 328 N.W.2d 301, 308 (Iowa 1982). To this extent the postconviction judgment is modified and the case is remanded to district court for appropriate implementing orders.