STATE v. JESSE

No. 23-1033.

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. THOMAS DEAN JESSE, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

Filed March 5, 2025.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Lucey, State Appellate Defender, and Mary K. Conroy, Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Brenna Bird, Attorney General, and Martha E. Trout, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Heard by Greer, P.J., and Langholz and Sandy, JJ.


In October 2021, thirty-seven-year-old Thomas Jesse was back living in his parents' basement. Entering his room while he was not present, Jesse's mother observed two sexually explicit videos playing on his open laptop—one showed Jesse engaged in a sex act and in the other he was masturbating while a five-year-old boy watched...

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