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STATE v. MITCHELL

No. 99-0660.

633 N.W.2d 295 (2001)

STATE of IOWA, Appellee, v. John Nell MITCHELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 6, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, Dennis D. Hendrickson, Assistant State Appellate Defender, and John Nell Mitchell, pro se, Anamosa, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Linda J. Hines, Assistant Attorney General, William E. Davis, County Attorney, and Michael J. Walton, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

CARTER, Justice.

This appeal revisits a question with which this court has struggled on numerous occasions: When can the State use evidence of other bad acts in a prosecution for sexual abuse. A jury convicted defendant John Mitchell of three counts of second-degree sexual abuse in violation of Iowa Code sections 709.1 and 709.3 (1997) after hearing, over his objection, the testimony of two other victims of his alleged abuse. The court of appeals affirmed, concluding...

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