STATE v. DECKER

No. 06-0478.

744 N.W.2d 346 (2008)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Errol Edward DECKER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 8, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Dennis D. Hendrickson and Stephan J. Japuntich, Assistant State Appellate Defenders, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Mary E. Tabor, Assistant Attorney General, and Harold Denton, County Attorney, for appellee.


APPEL, Justice.

In this case, we must decide whether a videotaped interrogation, suppressed during the State's case-in-chief for constitutional violations, can be admitted as rebuttal evidence to combat an insanity defense. The trial court admitted the videotape, on the State's motion, as evidence of the defendant's demeanor less than twenty-four hours after commission of the assault. The defendant claims that the admission of the videotape violated his Fifth and...

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