STATE v. HESS

No. 21-0079.

983 N.W.2d 279 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Cameron James HESS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed December 29, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, and Josh Irwin , (argued), Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

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

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Mansfield and McDermott, JJ., joined. McDonald, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Oxley and May, JJ., joined.


In this appeal, a defendant—who at age seventeen confessed to sexually abusing three children—was prosecuted in district court, convicted on four class "B" felony counts, and sentenced at age twenty. The district court suspended his sentence of incarceration and placed him on probation without suspending his lifetime...

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