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State v. Holderness

Citations

  • 191 N.W.2d 642
  • 1971 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 801

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  • defendant’s testimony may be considered in determining whether defendant has sufficient mental or intellectual capacity to understand consequences of waiving constitutionally protected rights
  • defendant of sufficient intelligence to own a car, secure driver’s license, drive from Iowa to Texas unaided, and live alone for some time
  • defendant could neither read nor write and had an I.Q. of seventy-seven
  • urging officers to record private interviews with an accused
  • witness physically unable to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Becker, Uhlenhopp, Uhlen-Hopp, Moore, Rees

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