Cedar Rapids DUI and Criminal Lawyer: What you need to know during Covid-19
While personal court appearances are severely limited in Cedar Rapids criminal prosecutions, including DUI cases, defendants are still being
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David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
Iowa high court issues coronavirus order
The Iowa Supreme Court has issued an order to limit the spread of coronavirus in the execution of the court's duties. Find out how it wi
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Jan 25, 2020
- 3 min
Cedar Rapids DUI Lawyer: Do OWI convictions automatically "fall off" my record?
Defendants sometimes mistakenly believe that a drunk driving conviction in the State of Iowa "falls off" their record, or, is auto
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Cedar Rapids DUI Lawyer: what to expect with your 2020 OWI criminal prosecution
You know it well. The lonely chair, next to the desk. On the desk there's a computer looking thing. That's the Datamaster DMT.
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Nov 8, 2019
- 3 min
Iowa high court tosses 80 pounds of pot
The Iowa Supreme Court suppressed 80 pounds of marijuana b/c a deputy could not justify prolonging a traffic stop to search a car.
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Oct 20, 2019
- 4 min
Immigration status can inform sentencing, rules Iowa high court
Justice Mansfield writes in Valdez that sentencing courts can consider how immigration status affects other sentencing factors and thus immi
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Jun 1, 2019
- 2 min
Cedar Rapids Criminal Lawyer: top reasons police use to justify OWI traffic stop
Officers constantly look for purportedly impaired drivers. They use traffic violations to justify stops to smell, hear, and see how alcohol
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Apr 19, 2019
- 2 min
How long can Cedar Rapids Police follow motorist?
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, OWI (DUI) clients and potential clients often ask how long police can follow a motorist under suspicion of DUI. Here'
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Feb 9, 2019
- 3 min
Police garage not "detention" for right to phone call
Iowa high court decides sobriety testing in patrol car sally port, or, garage, is not "place of detention" to trigger right to a p
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
Iowa Supreme Court overturns 3X habitual offender drunk driver sentence calling it illegal
In Noll, Iowa Supreme Court reverses 3X third offender OWI sentence reserved for habitual felons holding habitual felon statute does not app
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Aug 25, 2018
- 3 min
Iowa Supreme Court okays suspicionless stop of parked motorist at roadside
Iowa's high court upholds suspicionless stop of parked motorist at roadside as long as court finds officer genuinely only wanted to rend
David A. Cmelik Law PLC
- Jun 7, 2018
- 3 min
Governor signs new OWI restrictive license and interlock law
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law sweeping changes to require all OWI offenders to install ignition interlock devices in cars they
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