State v. Finders

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting purpose of sex offender registry “is to reduce the high risk of recidivism posed by sex offenders”
• noting when we interpret criminal statutes, we consider “the evil sought to be remedied,” among other things (quoting State v. Byers, 456 N.W.2d 917, 919 (Iowa 1990))
• discussing the grandfather provision in the sex offender residency restriction law
• discussing the grandfather provision in the sex offender residency restriction law
• “A statute is ambiguous if it is capable of being understood in two or more possible ways.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).