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SIMMONS v. STATE OF IOWA

No. 93-2695.

28 F.3d 1478 (1994)

Donna Jayne SIMMONS, Appellant, v. STATE OF IOWA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis Hoyt, West Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellant.

Thomas McGrane, Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT and ROSS, Senior Circuit Judges.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

In December 1988 Donna Jayne Simmons was convicted in Iowa state court of first-degree kidnapping, a charge that arose out of her role in the confinement and torture of her seven-year-old son, and she was sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. She appeals the judgment of the District Court1 denying her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and we affirm.

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