Legal Opinion

State v. Lange

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided January 22, 1993No. 92-381PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ANDREASEN, Judge.

The State appeals from a district court order dismissing the charge of failure to affix a drug tax stamp in violation of Iowa Code chapter 421A (1991) against defendant on double jeopardy grounds. Defendant was previously convicted for manufacture of a controlled substance arising out of the same facts. The State contends the district court erred in concluding defendant’s resistance to consolidating the two charges did not waive double jeopardy protection. Finding error, we reverse and remand.

I. Background.

On April 1, 1991, Waterloo police searched Brian Joseph Lange’s…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Brown v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Grady v. CorbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  5. Jeffers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Spaur v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1994
  2. State v. GallupSupreme Court of Iowa · 1993
  3. State v. LangeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1995
  4. United States v. RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2011
  5. State v. FranzenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1993

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