Legal Opinion
State v. Countryman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 24, 1997No. 96-1220PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
This first-degree murder prosecution arose from the particularly savage killings of two elderly Des Moines sisters during a crudely inept robbery. The defendant and her husband were both charged with the killings, and she appeals following her conviction of first-degree murder in violation of Iowa Code section 707.2 (1995). Because we find no merit in any of the defendant’s four assignments of error, we affirm.
The victims, eighty-three-year-old Made-lyne Miletich, and her sister, seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Miletich, shared a Des Moines apartment. They were befriended by…
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