Legal Opinion
Van Hoff v. State
Court of Appeals of Iowa
Decided August 23, 1989No. 87-1758PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DONIELSON, Presiding Judge.
Shortly after his live-in girlfriend told him she was moving out, Roger Van Hoff found his shotgun and started firing. Both his father and his son were killed as a result. Van Hoff claims that at the time of the shootings he was depressed, confused, sleep-deprived, and under the influence of alcohol and amphetamines, and that he could not clearly remember what happened until shortly before trial when his memory returned. His attorneys having prepared a defense based on his loss of memory requested a continuance to allow them to develop a new theory based on the…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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