State v. Satern

NEUMAN, Justice.

Defendant John Satern and his friend Harold Schnetter spent the evening of December 13, 1991, drinking and cruising the topless bars around Fort Dodge, Iowa. Shortly after 11 p.m., Satern’s pickup crossed the centerline of a rural highway, killing the driver of an oncoming car and seriously injuring the driver’s wife. By the time police arrived, Schnetter had fled the scene. Sa-tern told police that he had been asleep in the passenger seat, with Schnetter at the wheel, when the accident occurred. Schnet-ter, apprehended at a nearby farmhouse, claimed Satern had been driving.…