Iowa Court of Appeals · No. 25-1668

State of Iowa v. Loren Patrick Cramblit

Decided November 4, 2026 · appeal from Polk County · Criminal

What the court decided

Result: AFFIRMED AND REMANDED

Loren Cramblit appeals following guilty pleas for assault causing bodily injury and fourth-degree criminal mischief, asserting the district court abused its discretion when fashioning the sentence and imposed an illegal sentence.

Holding: Upon our review, we find no abuse of discretion in the court’s consideration of relevant sentencing factors. But we remand to the district court for the limited purpose of entering a nunc pro tunc order to reflect the maximum term of incarceration on the consecutive counts to be 730 days.

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Judges

Written by Judge Julie Schumacher
Considered without oral argument by Schumacher, P.J., and Langholz and Sandy, JJ.
Trial judge: Paul Scott, Polk County

Iowa Code it cites

§708.2 §716.1 §716.6 §903.1

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