WASHINGTON, Iowa (AP) —An appeals court has upheld the second-degree murder conviction of an eastern Iowa man who smothered his wife during an argument.
The Iowa Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected James Blum’s claim that his attorney should’ve argued he didn’t act with malice when he killed Patricia Blum at their Washington home in 2010.
The court says that argument would’ve been “meritless” because the ...
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