STATE v. JONES

No. 89-998.

471 N.W.2d 833 (1991)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Gloria Jean JONES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender and B. John Burns, Asst. Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Richard J. Bennett, Asst. Atty. Gen., James M. Metcalf, County Atty., and Thomas Ferguson and Daniel Shuck, Asst. County Attys., for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

A jury found defendant Gloria Jean Jones guilty of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of her live-in boyfriend. We find merit in her challenge to trial court rulings which admitted evidence of her past violent criminal actions. We reverse and remand for a new trial. So doing we vacate the action of the court of appeals which affirmed the trial court judgment by operation of law on a three-to-three vote.

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