State v. Jeffries

OXBERGER, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Willie James Jeffries, appeals his conviction of sexual abuse in the first degree in violation of Iowa Code sections 709.1 and 709.2 (1985). He asserts that the district court erred by: (1) refusing to admit evidence of the complainant’s prior sexual behavior, and (2) refusing to admit evidence that the complainant suffered from delusions of sexual abuse. We affirm.

The charge arose from an incident which occurred on October 26,1985, when defendant and another man picked up Freda Crawford after she had run away from a drug rehabilitation center. She had left…