Attorney Files Brief To Overturn Ruling In Eddie Hicks Case

The case of a man convicted in the 2015 fatal stabbing of his girlfriend in Dubuque continues through Iowa’s legal system. An attorney for 32 year old Eddie Hicks filed a legal brief April 13 asking the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn a ruling in April 2020 that dismissed his request for a new trial. The brief, submitted by Tiffany Joy Kragnes, a Des Moines attorney, contends that Hicks’ counsel in the 2020 proceeding was ineffective for failing to properly respond to prosecutors’ motions for summary judgment — a judgment entered by a court for one party against another without a full trial. Hicks is serving life in prison after he was convicted of first-degree murder. Authorities said he stabbed his girlfriend, 21 year old Kahdyesha Lemon more than 100 times and beat her in the head with a frying pan in June 2015.