Burglary defined
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 195 L. Ed. 2d 604 - Mathis v. United States (2016)
Most recently applied in United States v. Marc Harris (December 2023)
[C51, §2608, 2611; R60, §4232, 4235; C73, §3891, 3894; C97, §4787, 4791, 4792, 4794; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12994, 13001 – 13004; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §708.1,…
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, having the intent to commit a felony, assault or theft therein, who, having no right, license or privilege to do so, enters an occupied structure, such occupied structure not being open to the public, or who remains therein after it is closed to the public or after the person’s right, license or privilege to be there has expired, or any person having such intent who breaks an occupied structure, commits burglary.
84 Acts, ch 1247, §2
Definition of occupied structure, §702.12
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.