STATE v. ALVEY

No. 88-1704.

458 N.W.2d 850 (1990)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. William Joseph ALVEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond E. Rogers, State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Sheryl A. Soich, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Mark Schouten, County Atty., for appellee.

Considered en banc.


HARRIS, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of third-degree sexual abuse and appealed to challenge an evidentiary ruling. The question involves Iowa's rape shield law, Iowa rule of evidence 412. The defendant sought to introduce evidence that the complainant had complained of being raped following a prior unrelated consensual sexual experience. The trial court sustained the State's objections to this evidence, a ruling which is defendant's sole assignment of error on...

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