STATE v. RICHMOND

No. 97-954.

590 N.W.2d 33 (1999)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. John Michael RICHMOND, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and James Tomka, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Martha E. Boesen, Assistant Attorney General, Denver D. Dillard, County Attorney, and Russell G. Keast, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

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


HARRIS, Justice.

The question in this appeal following a conviction of second-degree sexual abuse is whether it was reversible error to receive evidence of admissions by the accused recited in a conversation with a clergyman/counselor. A ruling admitting the testimony is alternatively challenged as violating either the priest-penitent privilege or the counselor-client privilege under Iowa Code section 622.10 (1997). The trial court concluded the conversation was not...

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