State of Iowa v. Christian Lee Jessee

What the court decided

Result: AFFIRMED

Christian Jessee challenges his convictions for murder in the first degree and three related offenses. He argues that the district court should have excluded prior bad acts evidence that he had served time in prison.

Holding: Finding no abuse of discretion in the district court’s admission of the prior bad acts evidence, we affirm Jessee’s convictions.

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Judges

• Written by Chief Judge Mary Tabor
• Considered without oral argument by Tabor, C.J., and Schumacher and Buller, JJ.
• Trial judge: Henry W. Latham, Scott County