Legal Opinion
State v. Helmers
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 25, 2008No. 07-0178PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
Robert Helmers was charged with stalking a woman while subject to a no-contact order. The existence of a no-contact order elevates the crime of stalking from an aggravated misdemeanor to a class “D” felony. Helmers moved to bifurcate the trial so that evidence of the no-contact order would not be presented to the jury unless it first found him guilty of stalking. The district court granted Helmers’ motion, and the State sought interlocutory appeal. We find the district court abused its discretion in bifurcating the trial because the probative value of the no-contact order is…
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