State v. Green

NEUMAN, Justice.

The State charged James Green with murder after a search of his residence yielded the decomposed body of his former girlfriend, Rosemary McGivney. Green challenged the search by a pretrial motion to suppress. The district court, analyzing the sufficiency of the warrant in terms of proof necessary to uphold an administrative search for a missing person, overruled the motion. The case then proceeded to a bench trial on stipulated evidence, including Green’s detailed confession. The court found him guilty of second-degree murder in violation of Iowa Code sections 707.1 and 707.3…