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Iowa Code § 709.6 (2026)
Jury instructions for offenses of sexual abuse
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No instruction shall be given in a trial for sexual abuse cautioning the jury to use a different standard relating to a victim’s testimony than that of any other witness to that offense or any other offense. [C79, 81, §709.6]
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Cited in 21
cases (9 in the last 5 years), 1951–2025 · leading case: State v. Kobylasz, 47 N.W.2d 167 (Iowa 1951).
State v. Kobylasz, 47 N.W.2d 167 (Iowa 1951). “" In Section 709.6, the provision is that if a person "commit the crime of larceny * * * by stealing from the person of another, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary" for 15 years.”
State v. Habhab, 209 N.W.2d 73 (Iowa 1973). “Larceny from the person as defined in section 709.6, The Code, is an offense included within robbery as defined by section 711.”
Fitzgerald v. United States, 443 A.2d 1295 (D.C. 1982). “3, deleted corroboration requirement); Iowa Code Ann. § 709.6 (West 1978); Minn.”
Watson v. Nix, 551 F. Supp. 1 (S.D. Iowa 1982). “3 (1973), 10 or 25 year sentence depending on whether there was aggravation; and larceny from the person, Iowa Code § 709.6 (1973), 15 year sentence.”
State v. Kirchner, 600 N.W.2d 330 (Iowa Ct. App. 1999). “20(3); Iowa Code § 709.6 . We conclude there is substantial evidence to support a finding Gary sexually abused Melanie.”
State v. Washington, 308 N.W.2d 422 (Iowa 1981). “In Marsan the accused sought to nullify her previous plea of guilty on the ground that it had no factual basis; the court, citing Kobylasz , responded: If we assume the truth of her statement that the billfold was taken from the sidewalk at [the victim's] feet (after it…”
State v. Jones, 113 N.W.2d 303 (Iowa 1962). “3, Code of Iowa, 1958, and convicted of the included offense, larceny from the person, section 709.6, Code of Iowa, 1958. She appeals, urging insufficiency of the evidence, and the confession, Exhibit No.”
State v. Marsan, 221 N.W.2d 278 (Iowa 1974). “Under such circumstances, neither the United States nor Iowa Constitutions, in our view, require that defendant be subjected to the trauma of trial or the State subjected to the expense of litigating a dead issue.”
State v. Bigley, 202 N.W.2d 56 (Iowa 1972). “Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for larceny under Code § 709.6. He claims he was denied a fair trial by trial court’s refusal to question the jurors during trial concerning their knowledge of a newspaper article about the case which appeared on the third day of…”
State of Iowa v. Kurt Allen Kraai (Iowa Ct. App. 2021). “5 instruction bolsters the credibility of the child’s statements over other testimony in the record, including his own; and (3) the instruction violates Iowa Code section 709.6, which states, “No instruction shall be given in a trial for sexual abuse cautioning the jury to use a…”
State of Iowa v. Kurt Allen Kraai (Iowa 2022). “” Iowa Code § 709.6 . The challenged instruction, on its face, did not caution the jury to use a different standard relating to the victim’s testimony than that of any other witness.”
State v. Washington, 308 N.W.2d 422 (Iowa 1981). “In Marsan the accused sought to nullify her previous plea of guilty on the ground that it had no factual basis; the court, citing Kobylasz, responded: If we assume the truth of her statement that the billfold was taken from the sidewalk at [the victim’s] feet (after it…”
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