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State v. Mitchell

Citations

  • 568 N.W.2d 493
  • 1997 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 213
  • 1997 WL 424026

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding witness testimony as to age falls under evidence rule 803(19)
  • finding minor inconsistencies in complaining witness’s testimony overcome because “she never changed the operative fact that she and [the accused] had sexual intercourse”
  • identifying harassment and humiliation of a complaining witness to be “inflammatory and prejudicial” within the meaning of a relevancy analysis
  • analyzing the admissibility of STD evidence under Iowa's rape shield law as evidence of the victim's past sexual behavior
  • recognizing witness 5 credibility is generally left to the jurors
  • stating the credibility of witnesses is generally left to the jury, “allowing it to resolve inconsistencies as it sees fit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McGiverin, Lavorato, Neuman, Andreasen, Ternus

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