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State of Iowa
v.
Jordan Dee Andrews Webb
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Jordan Dee Andrews Webb
Attorney for the Appellee
Louis S. Sloven, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Josh Irwin, Assistant Appellate Defender
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Webster County, Angela L. Doyle and Christopher C. Polking, Judges. AFFIRMED. Heard by Tabor, C.J., and Chicchelly and Sandy, JJ. Opinion by Tabor, C.J. (22 pages)
Jordan Webb appeals his convictions for second-degree sexual abuse, incest, and child endangerment. He contends there is insufficient evidence to support the verdicts and the district court erred in admitting hearsay statements made by the child victim, denying his motion for mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct, and denying his motion for new trial based on his challenge to the weight of the evidence. OPINION HOLDS: We find substantial evidence supports the verdicts. The district court committed harmless error when it admitted the child’s hearsay statements, and it did not abuse its discretion in admitting the statements over Webb’s rule 5.403 objection or denying Webb’s motion for new trial. Webb failed to preserve error on his prosecutorial misconduct claim. We affirm.
