March 19, 2024

Man convicted of robbery gets sentence rehearing

DES MOINES — A man serving up to 30 years in prison for robbing a Coralville western wear store at knifepoint in 2009 won an appeal of his sentence Wednesday convincing the Iowa Court of Appeals to order a sentence rehearing.

Jose Leonardo Jordan Murcia was 17 when he and another man forced two store workers to turn over money from the store’s cash register.