# In the Interest of J.A.L.

> Supreme Court of Iowa · April 8, 2005 · 694 N.W.2d 748

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8244910

## Case

- **Full name:** In the Interest of J.A.L., Minor Child, J.A.L., Minor Child
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Iowa
- **Decided:** April 8, 2005
- **Citations:** 694 N.W.2d 748; 2005 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 48
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Larson
- **Judges:** Cady, Larson, Streit, Who, Wiggins
- **Cited by:** 47 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

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.

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