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While personal court appearances are severely limited in Cedar Rapids criminal prosecutions, including DUI cases, defendants are still being

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

Defendants sometimes mistakenly believe that a drunk driving conviction in the State of Iowa "falls off" their record, or, is auto

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.

The Iowa Supreme Court suppressed 80 pounds of marijuana b/c a deputy could not justify prolonging a traffic stop to search a car.

Justice Mansfield writes in Valdez that sentencing courts can consider how immigration status affects other sentencing factors and thus immi

Officers constantly look for purportedly impaired drivers. They use traffic violations to justify stops to smell, hear, and see how alcohol

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, OWI (DUI) clients and potential clients often ask how long police can follow a motorist under suspicion of DUI. Here&#39

Iowa high court decides sobriety testing in patrol car sally port, or, garage, is not "place of detention" to trigger right to a p

In Noll, Iowa Supreme Court reverses 3X third offender OWI sentence reserved for habitual felons holding habitual felon statute does not app

Iowa's high court upholds suspicionless stop of parked motorist at roadside as long as court finds officer genuinely only wanted to rend

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law sweeping changes to require all OWI offenders to install ignition interlock devices in cars they