STATE v. LYMAN

No. 07-1999.

776 N.W.2d 865 (2010)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. June Betty LYMAN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 8, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Martha J. Lucey, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Jean C. Pettinger, Assistant Attorney General, Patrick Jennings, County Attorney, and Terry C. Ganzel, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.


WIGGINS, Justice.

The defendant appeals from her conviction for second-degree murder alleging that the district court erred in holding she was competent to stand trial and by failing to instruct the jury that murder in the second degree is a specific intent crime. She also claims her trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to redact and/or object to the introduction of evidence depicting the defendant's repeated invocations of her right...

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