STATE v. CLARKE

No. 83-658.

343 N.W.2d 158 (1984)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Roger Walter CLARKE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richard L. Cleland, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Patrick White, County Atty., for appellant.

C. Joseph Holland of Hayek, Hayek, Hayek & Holland, Iowa City, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, CARTER and WOLLE, JJ.


WOLLE, Justice.

In this sexual abuse case we granted the State's request for discretionary review of the trial court's pretrial order permitting defendant to introduce evidence of the complaining witness's past sexual conduct. Because defendant has not established a proper basis for admission of the evidence at trial, we reverse and remand.

The defendant Roger Walter Clarke was charged on April 11, 1983, with sexual abuse in the third degree in violation of...

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