Legal Opinion
Ideal Mutual Insurance Co. v. Winker
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 19, 1982No. 66163PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UHLENHOPP, Justice.
In this appeal we determine whether a guilty plea entered in a criminal prosecution precludes the convicted party from reliti-gating the issue of his criminality in a subsequent declaratory action brought against him by an insurer to construe an exclusionary provision of its policy.
On February 18, 1979, Dennis R. Winker shot and killed his estranged girl friend, Mary Jo Heiman, while she was working as a waitress at the Country Kitchen Cafe in Carroll, Iowa. At the time Winker was an off-duty deputy of the Carroll County Sheriff. He was charged with first-degree murder, but…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- United States v. Bertram L. PodellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Brainard v. StateSupreme Court of Iowa · 1974
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3Cited by44 opinions
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