STATE v. BRIMMER

No. 21-0744.

983 N.W.2d 247 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Ronald James BRIMMER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed December 22, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, and Vidhya K. Reddy , Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Genevieve Reinkoester , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Oxley, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which McDonald, J., joined, McDermott and May, JJ., joined except as to section IV.B.2, and Christensen, C.J., and Mansfield and Waterman, JJ., joined as to part III only. Mansfield, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, J., joined. May, J., filed a special concurrence, in which McDermott, J., joined.


Criminal jury trials in Iowa and around the country over the last two and a half years would have looked strange to an observer plucked out of prepandemic times. Witnesses speaking through masks and see-through face shields; brightly colored tape on floors every six feet to mark where people could stand; clients sitting at different...

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