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Jason Clayworth is an investigative reporter at the Des Moines Register. Court records reviewed by the Register do not indicate that he has filed any further motions linked to his representation in the case. He did not respond to a request for comment. Martinez is currently being held at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center correctional facility in Coralville.
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She said she believes Martinez was ultimately satisfied with his legal representation. Marcucci said the case was assigned to her before the hate crime enhancement and before her supervisors were aware the case involved issues pertaining to sexuality. Martinez was arrested in June after taking the rainbow flag from the United Church of Christ in Ames. Had he ordered the sentences to run concurrently, the incarceration would have totaled 15 years, a slight reduction. In addition to spending a decade and a half in prison for burning the LGBT flag, the 30-year-old Martinez also will be serving an additional year for his use of fire and 30 days for harassment. He did, however, order Martinez to serve the sentences consecutively. An Ames, Iowa man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing and burning an LGBTQ flag. Adolfo Martinez, 30, was found guilty of a. For the crime of harassment, he received just 30 days.
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Van Marel under state sentencing law had little leeway when determining Martinez's penalty. An Iowa man was sentenced to serve 16 years behind bars after he tore down a rainbow flag symbolizing gay pride from the front of a church and burned it. “I think it’s a very interesting issue in that the First Amendment right to freedom of expression covers things like burning the American flag, but burning the rainbow flag is something that was criminalized,” Marcucci told the Register this month.