Legal Opinion
State of Iowa v. Eddie Tipton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 23, 2017No. 15–1515PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
APPEL, Justice.
In this case, Eddie Tipton challenges his felony convictions on two lottery-related offenses. The convictions arose out of the drawing of a Hot Lotto jackpot winner with a prize of $16.5 million on December 29, 2010. The State claimed Tipton engaged in a technologically sophisticated 21st Century crime, while the defense characterized the State’s version of events as derived from Mission: Impossible.1
On January 15, 2015, over four years after the lottery drawing in question, the State charged Tipton with fraudulently passing or redeeming, or attempting to pass or redeem,, a…
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