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Supreme Court of Iowa· 12/20/1972

State v. Wright

Citations

  • 203 N.W.2d 247
  • 1972 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 978

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  • noting risk of inflammatory and corrosive other-crimes evidence is its tendency to “stir such passion in the jury as to sweep them beyond a rational consideration of guilt or innocence of the crime on trial” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • noting risk of inflammatory and corrosive other-crimes evidence is its tendency to “stir such passion in the jury as to sweep them beyond a rational consideration of guilt or innocence of the crime on trial” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • noting risk of inflammatory and corrosive other-crimes evidence is its tendency to “stir such passion in the jury as to sweep them beyond a rational consideration of guilt or innocence of the crime on trial” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • admission' of prior lascivious conduct toward own daughter, for purpose of showing complete story or for corroboration, in trial for statutory rape of stepdaughter held reversible error because shows only criminal character
  • admission of prior lascivious conduct toward own daughter, for purpose of showing complete story or for corroboration, in trial for statutory rape of stepdaughter held reversible error because shows only criminal character
  • “Exercise of trial court discretion therefore goes beyond the question of categorical classification to a determination whether the ‘minute peg of relevancy will be entirely obscured by the dirty linen hung upon it.’ ”

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Judges: Moore, Le-Grand, Uhlenhopp, Reynold-Son, McCormick

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