HOVERSTEN v. STATE OF IOWA

No. 92-2402.

998 F.2d 614 (1993)

Larry Glen HOVERSTEN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF IOWA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. McGrane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, IA, argued for defendant-appellant.

Edward J. Ennis, West Des Moines, IA, argued for plaintiff-appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, MAGILL, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Larry Glen Hoversten was convicted of criminal sexual abuse of his young stepdaughter after a state court trial at which the child testified behind a one-way mirror. The district court1 granted a writ of habeas corpus, concluding that this procedure violated Hoversten's Confrontation Clause rights as construed in the subsequent Supreme Court decisions in Coy v. Iowa,<...

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