Willful injury
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Boto Jima v. William P. Barr (2019)
Most recently applied in United States v. Dimaryn Ware (June 2025)
[C51, §2577, 2594; R60, §4200, 4217; C73, §3857, 3875; C97, §4752, 4771, 4797; S13, §4771; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12928, 12934, 12962; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §6…
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.
Any person who does an act which is not justified and which is intended to cause serious injury to another commits willful injury, which is punishable as follows:
1. A class “C” felony, if the person causes serious injury to another.
2. A class “D” felony, if the person causes bodily injury to another.
99 Acts, ch 65, §5; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §184
Serious injury, §702.18
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.