cautionary jury instruction in Iowa

2023“Additionally, we review the refusal to give a cautionary jury instruction for abuse of discretion.” State v. Williams, 929 N.W.2d 621, 628 (Iowa 2019).

2023See State v. Williams, 929 N.W.2d 621, 628 (Iowa 2019) (“[W]e review the refusal to give a cautionary jury instruction for abuse of discretion.”).8 As explained, Michael Allison was a federal detainee who bunked near Burns in the Cedar Rapids jail.

2019See Plain, 898 N.W.2d at 811 .

2019See Plain , 898 N.W.2d at 811 .

2023“Evidence is unfairly prejudicial if it[] ‘[a]ppeals to the jury’s sympathies, arouses its sense of horror, provokes its instinct to punish, or triggers other mainsprings of human action that may cause the jury to base its decision on something other than the established propositions in the case.’” State v. White, 668 N.W.2d 850, 854 (Iowa 2003) (second alteration in original) (citation omitted).

2023State v. Neiderbach, 837 N.W.2d 3 Through a cautionary jury instruction, the district court explained the limited purpose for the evidence of Mootz’s “other acts”: “If you find other acts occurred then and only then may such other acts be considered for the purpose of establishing knowledge or absence of mistake.” See Putman, 848 N.W.2d at 15 (noting a limiting instruction “is an antidote for the danger of prejudice”). 9 180, 202 (Iowa 2013).