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STATE v. SUMPTER

No. 88-651.

438 N.W.2d 6 (1989)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Jerry Bert SUMPTER, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1989.

As Corrected April 17, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore R. Hoglan of Fairall, Fairall, Kaplan, Hoglan & Condon, Marshalltown, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Sarah J. Coats, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Diann Wilder-Tomlinson, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

LARSON, Justice.

This defendant, Jerry Bert Sumpter, Jr., was already serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1984 kidnapping and sexual abuse of Janet Levis when, in 1987, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1980 death of Susan K. Vickers.

Prior to the sentencing for the second-degree murder, the presentence investigator received "victim impact statements" from two aunts and an uncle of Susan Vickers. See Iowa Code § 910A.5A...

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