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State of Iowa
v.
Christian William Goyne-Yarns
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Christian William Goyne-Yarns
Attorney for the Appellee
Linda J. Hines, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Jamie Hunter
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Dickinson County, Carl J. Petersen, Judge. AFFIRMED. Heard by Tabor, P.J., and Badding and Buller, JJ. Opinion by Tabor, P.J. (14 pages)
Christian Goyne-Yarns appeals his conviction for murder in the first degree of Shelby Woizeschke. He seeks a new trial, challenging the strength of the State’s proof and a ruling excluding evidence of a handgun, tested at the state crime laboratory but ruled out as the murder weapon. OPINION HOLDS: Because the State offered overwhelming evidence of Goyne-Yarns’s guilt, we affirm. And even if we assume exclusion of the gun evidence was erroneous, it was harmless error.
