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STATE v. RAGLAND

No. 87-13.

420 N.W.2d 791 (1988)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Jeffrey K. RAGLAND, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Harrington, Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Christie J. Scase, Asst. Atty. Gen., and E.A. Westfall, Co. Atty., for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO and SNELL, JJ.

SCHULTZ, Justice.

This appeal concerns the constitutionality of Iowa's felony-murder rule, Iowa Code § 707.2(2) (1981), when the underlying felony is willful injury, Iowa Code § 708.4. The State charged defendant Jeffrey K. Ragland with first-degree murder for the death of Timothy Sieff, on the alternative grounds that the killing was either done willfully, deliberately and with premeditation or while participating in a forceable felony. Following trial...

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