Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided September 29, 1982No. 66119PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LeGRAND, Justice.
This interlocutory appeal presents identical issues involved in four separate suits which were consolidated for hearing in the trial court and for this appeal. Our opinion relates to all four cases, but for convenience we discuss them as though they were but a single controversy.
This matter had its genesis in a double murder committed on October 23,1976. An investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (D.C.I.) resulted in an information charging plaintiffs with murder contrary to Iowa Code section 609.1. A jury trial resulted in the acquittal of both…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. NeustadtSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Barry J. Quinones v. United States of America, and United States Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and Its Agents and EmployeesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
- Brody v. RubySupreme Court of Iowa · 1978
- Wilson v. NepstadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1979
- Lyddon v. ShawAppellate Court of Illinois · 1978
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3Cited by41 opinions
- Sankey v. RichenbergerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1990
- Hildenbrand v. CoxSupreme Court of Iowa · 1985
- Keates v. City of VancouverCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1994
- Dever v. FowlerCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1992
- MH by and Through Callahan v. StateSupreme Court of Iowa · 1986
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