State v. Wagner

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Following a jury trial defendant Everett Ray Wagner has appealed from a district court judgment convicting him of eight counts of second-degree kidnapping and one count of insurrection. Except with respect to a restitution question, the issues Wagner raises are meritless. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

Wagner’s appeal arises out of a major uprising at the Iowa State Penitentiary on September 2, 1981. Inmates took a number of penitentiary employees hostage and caused substantial property damage to the penitentiary.

In the course…