State of Iowa v. Lynn Melvin Lindaman

Summary

The court vacated Lindaman’s conviction and sentence and remanded for a new trial because allowing the child witness to testify by one-way closed-circuit television violated the Iowa Constitution and the resulting error was not harmless. The court upheld the sufficiency of the evidence and admission of the former spouse’s testimony, reversed suppression of Lindaman’s confession under the statutory telephone-call right, and rejected his constitutional right-to-counsel claim.