State v. Huss

LARSON, Justice.

This is another chapter in the long history of this case. The defendant, Loren Huss, was arrested and charged with murder in the gruesome death of his girlfriend, Marilyn Sheets, in 1986. He was ultimately convicted and appealed to this court. State v. Huss, 430 N.W.2d 621 (Iowa 1988), cert, denied, 490 U.S. 1024, 109 S.Ct. 1755, 104 L.Ed.2d 191 (1989) (.Huss I). We affirmed his conviction. Huss took his case to federal district court in a habeas corpus action, lost there, and appealed to the eighth circuit. See Huss v. Graves, 252 F.3d 952 (8th Cir.2001). The eighth circuit…