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IN RE DETENTION OF PALMER

No. 03-2004.

691 N.W.2d 413 (2005)

In re the DETENTION OF Carol PALMER. State of Iowa, Appellee, v. Carol Palmer, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 21, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Smith, First Assistant Public Defender, and Matthew S. Sheeley, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Cris Odell Douglass and Andrew Prosser, Assistant Attorneys General, and John Sarcone, County Attorney, for appellee.

CADY, Justice.

Carol Palmer appeals from a district court judgment finding him to be a sexually violent predator subject to civil commitment under Iowa Code chapter 229A (2003). He claims the court erred in admitting opinion testimony and in refusing to instruct the jury that he was presumed not to be a sexually violent predator. We affirm.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings

The appellant, Carol Palmer, is seventy-five years old. He is a pedophile...

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