Legal Opinion
State v. Davis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 22, 1982No. 67922PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
In this appeal we consider several legal problems in a prosecution for first-degree kidnapping and second-degree sexual abuse under sections 710.1, .2, 709.1, and .3 of the Iowa Code of 1979.
The jury could find the following from the evidence. A young woman returned to her apartment alone in Davenport, Iowa, at about 3:00 a.m. on October 4, 1980. She unlocked the garage door and drove in. As she got out of her car defendant William Frederick Davis put his arm around her neck from the rear, held a knife to her throat, and told her to get back into the car. She did so, and…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Mincey v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- New Jersey v. PortashSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- State v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1980
- United States v. Mark Edwin CookCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by21 opinions
- State v. KoloskeWashington Supreme Court · 1984
- Lamphere v. StateSupreme Court of Iowa · 1984
- State v. GeierSupreme Court of Iowa · 1992
- State v. BelkenSupreme Court of Iowa · 2001
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Iowa · 1997
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