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State v. Dullard
Supreme Court of Iowa (2003) | 668 N.W.2d 585; 2003 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 169; 2003 WL 22053070
TL;DR: A note found at a suspected meth lab warning "B—" about police was used to convict the defendant. The court held the note was inadmissible hearsay because its value depended on an "implied assertion" that the recipient was involved in the criminal activity.
Legal Significance: The court rejected the federal approach and held that assertive verbal conduct offered to prove an implied belief of the declarant constitutes hearsay under Iowa's rules of evidence, adopting a broader, common-law interpretation of what constitutes an "assertion."