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STATE v. SATERN

No. 92-1962.

516 N.W.2d 839 (1994)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. John William SATERN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 25, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Kramer and Thomas J. Bice of Johnson, Erb, Gibb, Bice & Carlson, P.C., Fort Dodge, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Sheryl A. Soich and Charles N. Thoman, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Kurt J. Stoebe, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, NEUMAN, and TERNUS, JJ.

NEUMAN, Justice.

Defendant John Satern and his friend Harold Schnetter spent the evening of December 13, 1991, drinking and cruising the topless bars around Fort Dodge, Iowa. Shortly after 11 p.m., Satern's pickup crossed the centerline of a rural highway, killing the driver of an oncoming car and seriously injuring the driver's wife. By the time police arrived, Schnetter had fled the scene. Satern told police that he had been asleep in the passenger seat, with Schnetter...

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