Legal Opinion
State v. Holderness
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided February 18, 1981No. 63052PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALLBEE, Justice.
Defendant Lawrence Paul Holderness appeals his convictions of sexual abuse in the second degree and kidnapping in the first degree, violations of sections 709.3 and 710.-2, The Code, respectively. He sets forth several assignments of error, which we consider in the order presented by his brief.
The circumstances from which this case arose are briefly as follows. On August 26, 1978, a ten-year-old girl was abducted while in a Davenport cemetery. After luring the girl from her bicycle to his car, the assailant choked her, partially removed her pants and “did some things” to her…
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