STATE v. EVANS

No. 91-288.

495 N.W.2d 760 (1993)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Jack Spencer EVANS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Bruce Kempkes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard Lytle, County Atty., and Robert Glaser, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Amanda Potterfield of Johnston, Larson, Potterfield, Zimmermann & Nathanson, P.C., Iowa City, for appellant.

Considered en banc.


LARSON, Justice.

Jack Spencer Evans was convicted of first-degree murder, Iowa Code §§ 701.1, .2 (1989), and he appealed. He urged constitutional arguments, based on the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and ineffective assistance of counsel. The court of appeals reversed on Evans' Fifth and Sixth Amendment grounds, and we granted further review. We vacate the court of appeals decision and affirm the district court.

On September 11, 1990, the body of eighty...

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