Merger of lesser included offenses
Known as the Iowa Criminal Code
The act spans §§ 701–701 (13 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State of Iowa v. Joseph D. Ceretti (2015)
Most recently applied in State of Iowa v. Travis Raymond Wayne West (March 2019)
[C79, 81, §701.9]
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
No person shall be convicted of a public offense which is necessarily included in another public offense of which the person is convicted. If the jury returns a verdict of guilty of more than one offense and such verdict conflicts with this section, the court shall enter judgment of guilty of the greater of the offenses only.
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Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.