Further review has been denied for Dyan Marie Lee-Brown by the Iowa Supreme Court. The Washington County woman filed an appeal regarding her sentencing for conviction of a controlled substance, third offense. A third offense escalates from a misdemeanor to a class D felony. Lee-Brown had two convictions of possession of methamphetamineand possession of drug paraphernalia in 2012 and was then convicted for possession of marijuana. She argued that she is a second offender, stating she had only been convicted of drug possession twice. However, chapter 124 of state code states persons who commit a violation of the subsection two or more times are guilty of a class D felony.

The legislature, in 2000, added a section in chapter 124 making it unlawful to knowingly or intentionally possess drug paraphernalia. In August, the court stated Lee-Brown’s appeal was “more properly address to the legislature.”