Supreme Court of Iowa· 11/25/1981

State v. Duncan

Citations

312 N.W.2d 519
1981 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1093

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holding that Iowa’s burglary statute listed alternative means of satisfying the single locational element such that a jury need not agree on which location was involved in the offense
stating that if “alternative method[s] of committing” an offense are consistent with and “not repugnant to each other” the State need not prove that the defendant committed one specific alternative (citation omitted)
holding the State could charge the defendant with one count of burglary for breaking into a marina and a boat because “prosecutors have long been allowed to allege facts in the alternative to meet the contingencies of proof’
“If substantial evidence is presented to support each alternative method of committing a single crime, and the alternatives are not repugnant to each other, then unanimity of the jury as to the mode of commission of the crime is not required.”
analogous view taken in burglary case

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Judges: Reynoldson, Legrand, Uhlenhopp, McCormick, Schultz

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