State v. Gordon

McGiverin, justice.

Defendant Kenneth Edmond Gordon appeals his conviction for first-degree murder in violation of Iowa Code sections 707.1 and 707.2(1) (1981). In the sole issue raised, he contends the trial court erred in excluding his proffered evidence that drugs and drug paraphernalia had been found in the victim’s apartment after the victim had been killed in defendant’s apartment several miles away. The trial court sustained the State’s relevancy objection to that evidence. We affirm.

I. The background facts. On November 18, 1982, Gordon killed the victim, David Decker, in Gordon’s Mason…