Legal Opinion
Donna Jayne Simmons v. State of Iowa
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1994No. 93-2695PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
In December 1988 Donna Jayne Simmons was convicted in Iowa state court of first-degree kidnapping, a charge that arose out of her role in the confinement and torture of her ■ seven-year-old son, and she was sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. She appeals the judgment of the District Court1 denying her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and we affirm.
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Larry Siemer, Simmons’s live-in boyfriend, began to abuse Simmons’s seven-year-old son Tracey in the fall of 1987. Shortly after Christmas of that year the abuse escalated, and from December 1987 to April…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- James Lilly v. Jerry D. Gilmore, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
- United States v. Douglas Eugene MorseCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by22 opinions
- State v. IzzolenaSupreme Court of Iowa · 2000
- United States v. BarrazaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2009
- Denise Cleone Rhode v. Barbara Olk-Long, Warden, Iowa Correctional Institution for Women, Mitchellville, State of IowaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- State v. LaraSupreme Court of Iowa · 1998
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2001
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