State v. Cook

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The principal issue in this appeal involves the Miranda rule and is largely factual. We review the record de novo on this issue in the light of the totality of the circumstances. State v. Snethen, 245 N.W.2d 308, 311 (Iowa 1976). Upon so examining the record we find the facts to be substantially as follows.

Defendant Lonnie Cook, Sr. is presently 21, was neglected and physically abused as a child, had ten years of education, spent some of those years in a school for the learning disabled, received “zeroes and Fs” in school except in English and art, was periodically under…