declining to decide whether admission of prior-acts evidence was harmless error because review was de novo and even without prior-acts evidence, delinquency charge had been established beyond a reasonable doubt
How later courts described this case
- declining to decide whether admission of prior-acts evidence was harmless error because review was de novo and even without prior-acts evidence, delinquency charge had been established beyond a reasonable doubt
- holding a journal showing a fascination with death inadmissible in a juvenile adjudication proceeding for a threat to bomb a school
- declining to decide whether admission of prior-acts evidence was harmless error and refraining from considering prior-acts evidence in de novo review
- analyzing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a charge of false reports under Iowa Code section 712.7
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
LARSON, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the affirmance of the delinquency adjudication, but I do not agree with the majority’s conclusion that the juvenile court abused its discretion in allowing the journal entries into evidence. *756 They were clearly relevant on the issue of identity.
CADY and STREIT, JJ., join this special concurrence.