State v. Wilson

LAVORATO, Justice.

Following a jury trial, the defendant Ricky Laverne Wilson was found guilty of three crimes: first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and second-degree theft. See Iowa Code §§ 707.1, .2(1)-(2), 711.1-.2, 714.1(1), .2(2) (1983). The court sentenced Wilson to life in prison for the murder conviction and added concurrent indeterminate twenty-five and five-year terms for the other convictions.

On appeal from his convictions and sentence, the defendant asserts three grounds for reversal: (1) the district court abused its discretion in overruling the defendant’s pretrial motion…