Supreme Court: abuse should be reviewed in Muscatine woman’s murder conviction

June 14, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The Iowa Supreme Court says a Muscatine woman should have been allowed to explore whether abuse played a role in her fatal shooting of her ex-boyfriend. A jury found Cathryn Ann Linn guilty of first-degree murder in 2007 after she shot Barry Blanchard to death with a rifle in her bedroom. She had testified that […]