The wife and sons of farmer Kenneth Mosher are not considered victims under Iowa law because Soules was not convicted of causing Mosher's death, Judge Andrea Dryer ruled. Soules was driving a pickup truck that rear-ended Mosher's slow-moving tractor on a rural highway near Aurora in northeastern Iowa on April 24, 2017. The three victim impact statements written by Mosher's relatives and the presentence investigation report are sealed but were described in court Tuesday. The author of the presence investigation report cited the victim impact statements in recommending a sentence of incarceration for Soules. Dryer said Mosher's relatives are victims in the ordinary sense of the word and that she didn't "have any question as to the extent to which they suffered."

Source: ABC News May 21, 2019 20:33 UTC