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Supreme Court vacates man’s conviction brought on by jailhouse conversation

January 21, 2022 By Dar Danielson

The state Judicial Building.

The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out charges brought against a Polk County man following an online jail conversation with his former girlfriend.

Kourtney Hall told former girlfriend Emily Bowers if she doesn’t go to church that doesn’t mean she will go to jail. That was a code telling her not to show for a deposition seeking information in a criminal case against Hall.

She did show up and gave testimony, and Hall was then charged and convicted of suborning perjury and obstructing prosecution.

The Iowa Supreme Court overturned the perjury conviction — saying Hall did not offer any inducement that she testify falsely under oath or that she conceal material information. And the ruling says there is no crime of “attempted obstruction of prosecution,” it only prohibits actually causing a witness to fail to appear when subpoenaed.

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