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STATE v. ERNST

No. 18-1623.

954 N.W.2d 50 (2021)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Anthony ERNST, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed January 29, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey , State Appellate Defender, and Bradley M. Bender , (argued), Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Louis S. Sloven , (argued), Assistant Attorney General, C.J. May III , County Attorney, and Brigit M. Barnes , and Ry Allen Meyer , Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.

Oxley, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined. Appel, J., filed a special concurrence.

We have long recognized that specific intent crimes are seldom proved by direct evidence of the defendant's intent, leaving the State to rely on inferences to be drawn from the surrounding circumstances to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had a sufficiently culpable mental state to support a conviction...

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