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State v. Kehoe

Citations

  • 804 N.W.2d 302
  • 2011 Iowa App. LEXIS 642
  • 2011 WL 2695300

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  • observing that the label is “no part of the statutory law of the State”
  • stating malice aforethought— which is an element of second-degree murder—is not an element of the crime of attempt to commit murder
  • finding life in prison was not cruel and unusual punishment for defendant convicted of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and child endangerment
  • mentioning only the 1976 enactment, not the 1977 amendment, and concluding the word “murder” in section 707.11 was a code editor error rather than a deliberate legislative choice
  • affirming conviction where the defendant’s suicide attempt after murdering her children, along with expert testimony regarding the defendant’s major depressive disorder, amounted to substantial evidence to submit an insanity defense to the jury

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Judges: Danilson, Doyle, Potterfield, Sackett, Tabor, Takes, Vaitheswaran, Vogel

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