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· 7/23/1986

State v. Chancy

Citations

  • 391 N.W.2d 231
  • 1986 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1241

How courts have described this case

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  • noting in third-degree sex abuse trial that “there seems to be no question about the potential of psychological evidence in the present case to assist the trier of fact[, and] [t]he victim’s lack of mental capacity is ... key element in the crime charged”
  • victim was mildly-mentally-retarded woman with full scale I.Q. of 64, who was enrolled in a special education class; she functioned at level of a nine- to twelve-year-old and had difficulty understanding social situations

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Judges: Reynoldson, Harris, Larson, Schultz, Wolle

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