STATE v. RETTERATH

No. 19-2075.

974 N.W.2d 93 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Mark Bernard RETTERATH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Louis S. Sloven (argued), Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Jessica Donels (argued), Alfredo Parrish , and Gina Messamer of Parrish Kruidenier Dunn Gentry Brown Bergmann & Messamer L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellee.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all participating justices joined. Waterman, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.


A jury convicted Mark Retterath of solicitation to commit murder. Before his trial, Retterath sought to obtain the privileged counseling records of two of the State's key witnesses on the basis that these records might contain critical exculpatory information for his defense. The district court denied his requests. The court...

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