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STATE v. SWIFT

No. 18-2197.

955 N.W.2d 876 (2021)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Derris L. SWIFT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed March 5, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, Vidhya K. Reddy (argued), Assistant Appellate Defender, and Derris L. Swift, Clarinda, pro se.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Louis S. Sloven (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Walton , County Attorney, and Julie A. Walton , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined. McDonald, J., filed a special concurrence in which Waterman, J., joined.

A jury convicted Derris Swift of attempted murder and related crimes. Swift's main attack on appeal concerns the State's calling of three witnesses—all of whom the State knew to be reluctant to testify—that the State impeached on the witness stand with prior inconsistent statements they'd made to the police incriminating...

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