STATE v. DAVIS

No. 19-0214.

951 N.W.2d 8 (2020)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Gregory Michael DAVIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed November 13, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Parrish (argued) and Andrew Dunn of Parrish Kruidenier Dunn Boles Gribble Gentry Brown & Bergmann L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Louis S. Sloven (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Jerry A. Vander Sanden , County Attorney, and Elena S. Wolford , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.


The defendant, who had a history of substance abuse and mental illness, killed his girlfriend by stabbing her twenty-six times. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder. In this appeal, we must decide whether a new trial is required because the marshaling instruction for that charge failed to cross-reference the defendant's...

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