Donna Jayne Simmons v. State of Iowa

28 F.3d 1478

Donna Jayne SIMMONS, Appellant,

v.

STATE OF IOWA, Appellee.

No. 93-2695.

United States Court of Appeals,

Eighth Circuit.

Submitted Jan. 11, 1994.

Decided July 11, 1994.

Francis Hoyt, West Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellant.

Thomas McGrane, Des Moines, IA, argued, for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT and ROSS, Senior Circuit Judges.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

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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…