State v. Rodriquez

TERNUS, Justice.

The defendant, Aaddin Rodriquez, appeals his multiple criminal convictions arising out of an incident of domestic abuse. Concluding that evidence of prior and subsequent occasions of domestic abuse had been improperly admitted, the Iowa Court of Appeals reversed the defendant’s convictions and remanded for a new trial. We granted the State’s application for further review and now vacate the court of appeals *238decision and affirm the district court’s judgment of conviction and sentence.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

Melinda Enriquez, age twenty, was seen in the emergency…