Iowa Homeowners Association Law
<h2> <center> State of Iowa v. Dillon Michael Heilier </h2> </center>
Waukon, Iowa, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with theft by taking of a vehicle that was reported stolen in Wisconsin. At approximately 7:30 in the morning on October 1, 2023, Heiller parked an orange 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan SUV bearing Wisconsin license plates in front of a house in Waukon, Iowa. One of the homeowners was on her porch having a cup of coffee. She did n... More...
$ (04-17-2026 - IA)<h1> United States of America v. Robert Harry Bickerstaff </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Waterloo, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Defrauding Midwest Livestock Producers </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Fifth Manager Sentenced in Scheme to Defraud Midwest Livestock Producers</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Lyon County man who defrauded pork producer... More...
$0 (07-02-2024 - IA)<h1> United States of America v. Mackenzie Ann Meggison </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Council Bluffs, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Bank Embezzlement </font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i><br> </b> Malvern Woman Sentenced to 6 Months in Federal Prison for Bank Embezzlement Charge </h2></center><br> <br> A Malvern, IA woman was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison for Emb... More...
$0 (04-30-2024 - IA)State of Iowa v. John Eddie Hanes, III
Davenport, Iowa criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with criminal gang participation, a class "D" felony.<br> <br> On April 28, 2021, Davenport police detectives were conducting surveillance at an apartment on Emerald Drive following a gang-related homicide. The detectives observed a suspect leave the apartment, meet briefly with the occupants of an older model Cadillac sedan at a ne... More...
$0 (11-04-2022 - IA)United States of America v. Theodore Eric Watson
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.iasd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/DSM_Courthouse_0.jpg"><br> </center><br> Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Man Pleads Guilty to Defrauding United Way of Central Iowa and Embezzling from a Labor Union<br> <br> Theodore Eric Watson, age 54, of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer and entered guilty pleas to ... More...
$0 (04-18-2019 - IA)Tamela Muir v. Decatur County, Iowa
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.iasd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/DSM_Courthouse_0.jpg"><br> </center><br> Plaintiff Tamela Muir was fired by the acting Decatur County Sheriff, Ben<br> Boswell, shortly after her husband, Bert Muir, had been removed as Sheriff. Tamela<br> alleges that Boswell fired her simply because she was married to Bert and that<br> Boswell therefore violated... More...
$0 (03-11-2019 - IA)United States of America v. Darius Devon Nickelous
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/ephox_images/CedarRapids_3314823070993319616_1360864279914.jpg"><br> </center><br> Darius D. Nickelous was convicted of unlawfully possessing a firearm in<br> violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1), 922(g)(3), 922(g)(9), and 924(a)(2). The district<br> court sentenced him to 120 months’ imprisonment. 1 He appeals his conviction.<br>... More...
$0 (02-27-2019 - IA)State of Iowa v. Steven Asbury
<center><br> <img width="300" src=" https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/5d50ec05ca5e3d8bc0a32d76c98da04901ed8ded/c=217-0-577-480/local/-/media/2016/07/29/IAGroup/DesMoines/636053993072031224-a3.jpg?width=534&height=712&fit=crop "><br> <h2> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> On the morning of July 15, 2016, Tabitha Lee borrowed Steven Asbury’s <br> maroon Ford F-150 pickup truck to visit James Patton. ... More...
$0 (09-26-2018 - IA)United States of America v. Frank Dontrell Washington, Jr.
This appeal raises, primarily, two issues of interpretation. Frank Washington<br> argues that the district court erred in its interpretation of the Speedy Trial Act and<br> crafted an unconstitutionally vague condition of supervised release. We agree with<br> the latter challenge, but disagree with the former assertion. We also disagree with<br> Washington’s only other claim on appeal—that his... More...
$0 (06-28-2018 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. CHRISTOPHER YENGER <table> <td>
A fire set in a home north of Ottumwa resulted in the death of two occupants. <br> An investigation turned up no solid leads until a decade later. At that time, the <br> State charged Christopher Yenger with two counts of first-degree murder. A jury <br> found him guilty as charged. On appeal, Yenger contends (1) the State presented <br> insufficient evidence to corroborate accomplice testimon... More...
$0 (06-25-2018 - IA)Tracey K. Kuehl v. Pamela Sllner
Tracey K. Kuehl (Tracey), Lisa K. Kuehl (Lisa), Kris A. Bell, Nancy A.<br> Harvey, John T. Braumann, and the Animal Legal Defense Fund (plaintiffs) brought<br> suit against Pamela Sellner, Tom Sellner, and Cricket Hollow Zoo (defendants) under<br> 1The Honorable Richard W. Goldberg, United States Court of International<br> Trade, sitting by designation.<br> -2-<br> the Endangered Species Act, 16 U... More...
$0 (04-18-2018 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. KEITH MECO COLLINS <table> <td>
On November 7, 2016, police officers discovered the dead body of Aaron <br> McHenry with multiple gunshot wounds to the shoulder, arm, chest, and head. The <br> shooting occurred on a dead-end street at the twenty-six hundredth block of <br> Hickman Lane in Des Moines, Iowa. <br> Following the shooting and after finding a cell phone connecting Collins to <br> the murder, the police presented a s... More...
$0 (11-23-2017 - IA)Linda Linn and Mark Shuck v. Pat Montgomery, Chisty Schrader and Brad Allen
In this appeal, a plaintiff asks our court to decide if the district<br> court properly granted summary judgment and partial summary<br> judgment on his defamation claim based on the running of the statute of<br> limitations. Additionally, we must determine if the court properly<br> granted summary judgment on the plaintiff’s malicious prosecution claim<br> on the ground the defendants merely fu... More...
$0 (10-27-2017 - IA)Joanne Cote v. Derby Insurance Agency, Inc. and Kevin Dorn
Joanne Cote worked for Derby Insurance Agency from 1998 until 2014. In<br> 2014, she sued the agency and Kevin Dorn (collectively, Derby),1 alleging sexual<br> discrimination based on a hostile work environment, as well as the torts of<br> intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault. On interlocutory appeal,<br> Derby challenges the district court’s denial of its motion for summary ... More...
$0 (08-02-2017 - IA)DENIS GAILEY vs. STATE OF IOWA <table> <td>
In its ruling affirming Gailey’s convictions on direct appeal, this court set <br> forth the following facts surrounding the incident leading to Gailey’s charges: <br> The charges at issue in this case arose from a series of events that occurred on April 25, 2007. At the time, Gailey was under a protective order prohibiting contact with his wife, Dawn, and step-daughter, Jane Doe II. Dawn, ... More...
$0 (07-25-2017 - IA)DENIS GAILEY vs. STATE OF IOWA <table> <td>
In its ruling affirming Gailey’s convictions on direct appeal, this court set <br> forth the following facts surrounding the incident leading to Gailey’s charges: <br> The charges at issue in this case arose from a series of events that occurred on April 25, 2007. At the time, Gailey was under a protective order prohibiting contact with his wife, Dawn, and step-daughter, Jane Doe II. Dawn, ... More...
$0 (07-24-2017 - IA)Paul Gerlich; Erin Furleigh v. Steven Leath; Warren Madden; Thomas Hill; Leesha Zimmerman
Iowa State University (ISU) grants student organizations permission to use its<br> trademarks if certain conditions are met. The ISU student chapter of the National<br> Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML ISU) had several of its<br> trademark licensing requests denied because its designs included a cannabis leaf. Two<br> members of the student group subsequently filed this 42 U.S.... More...
$0 (06-13-2017 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. MARTHA ARACELY MARTINEZ <table> <td>
Martha Martinez came to Muscatine with her parents in 1997 when she was eleven years old. She attended Muscatine public schools and worked for several different employers in Muscatine County. When she was seventeen years old, Martinez applied for and obtained an Iowa driver’s license. She used a birth certificate in the name of Diana Castaneda, a person with a social security number, to obtai... More...
$0 (06-14-2017 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. EDDIE LAMONT VIRGIL <table> <td>
The jury could find the following facts from the evidence at trial. The defendant, Eddie Virgil, and the victim, N.J., age twenty-three, began a romantic relationship in late 2013 that included sexual intimacy. N.J. was an unemployed mother living in a house in Waterloo with her four children, none fathered by Virgil. Virgil assaulted N.J. in May 2014. N.J. broke off her relationship with Virg... More...
$0 (05-29-2017 - IA)DENNIS WILLARD vs. STATE OF IOWA <table> <td>
Dennis Willard was involved in a head-on motor vehicle accident in the late hours of November 3, 2011. Willard sustained significant injuries from the collision and was initially treated at the Genesis Medical Center East in Davenport, Iowa. While at Genesis, Willard underwent imaging studies and x-rays. One of the x-rays covered Willard’s left shoulder and showed no break or dislocation. Wil... More...
$0 (04-12-2017 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. JAZMOND DEANTRA TURNER <table> <td>
Jazmond and Keenan are brothers; Kendale is their cousin. One evening <br> in late August 2015, they were “hanging out” on Pershing Avenue in Davenport. <br> They saw Ramon, who they knew sold marijuana, take something out of his trunk <br> and enter the house where he lived with his father, Raymond March. Kendale <br> recalled discussing with his two companions a plan to take marijuana fro... More...
$0 (04-06-2017 - IA)JOHN JOSEPH FILIPELLI vs. IOWA RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION and IOWA GREYHOUND ASSOCIATION <table> <td>
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$0 (03-25-2017 - IA)STEPHEN SHAWN KEYES vs. STATE OF IOWA <table> <td>
<center><a href="http://www.morelawsuites.com/" target="_new"><h2><font="Red">MoreLaw Suites - Legal Suites and Virtual Offices - Downtown Tulsa-- Best Places In Downtown Tulsa To Practice Law </h2></font></a><br> </center><br> In the early morning hours of December 26, 1996, Keyes’s wife, Sandra, <br> and two-year-old son, Joshua, died in a house fire. The State accused Keyes of <br> setting t... More...
$0 (03-24-2017 - IA)<b>STATE OF IOWA vs. BOUNMY BOUNMY</b>
In the early hours of April 21, 2015, Deputy Sheriff Matt Struve received a <br> phone call from fellow Plymouth County Deputy Scott Dorhout, who had fielded a <br> request from an O’Brien County deputy to keep a lookout for a vehicle travelling <br> southbound toward Sioux City. The car was “coming from a known drug house” <br> in O’Brien County, according to the lookout request. Deputy... More...
$0 (02-10-2017 - IA)<b>STATE OF IOWA vs. KEVIN EUGENE JOHNSON</ center></b>
The State charged defendant Kevin Johnson with Count 1: burglary in the <br> third degree of a Family Dollar store on March 17, 2014; Count 2: burglary in the <br> third degree of a Jehovah’s Witness Church on March 17, 2014; Count 3: <br> burglary in the third degree of the L & K Laundry on January 24, 2014; Count 4: <br> theft in the first degree for property taken at the L & K Laundry; and Co... More...
$0 (12-23-2016 - IA)<b> STATE OF IOWA vs. GREGORY DANIEL HUDSON</b>
On the night of April 30, 2014, Hudson and his fiancé were at Prairie <br> Meadows Racetrack and Casino. At some point, the two engaged in a heated <br> discussion that drew the attention of Prairie Meadows security guards. On that <br> night, a Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy was working off-duty security at Prairie <br> Meadows. The deputy noticed the discussion and walked over to see what wa... More...
$0 (12-21-2016 - IA)United States of America v. Andrea G. Baker
Des Moines, IA - Elkhart Woman Sentenced to Prison for Mail Fraud Scheme Involving over $1.6 Million in Loss<br> <br> Andrea G. Baker, 50, of Eklhart, Iowa, was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment for mail fraud. Baker was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following her term of imprisonment and was ordered to pay $1,656,583.11 in restitution.<br> <br> Baker pled guilty to ... More...
$0 (10-06-2016 - IA)<b> VIRGIL JOHNSON and VIRGIL JOHNSON TRUCKING vs. ASSOCIATED MILK PRODUCERS, INC. </b> <table> <td>
The record establishes the following facts as undisputed. On September 1, 2000, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI) entered into an oral agreement with Virgil Johnson, the sole proprietor of Virgil Johnson Trucking. AMPI is a cooperative of dairy farmers that receives milk produced by its members, processes the milk into butter and cheese, and sells the dairy products. AMPI contracts with in... More...
$0 (10-19-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. SHELLY LEE SNOW
Following a trial on the minutes of testimony, Shelly Snow was convicted <br> of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), in violation of Iowa <br> Code section 124.401(5) (2013), and operating while intoxicated, first offense, in <br> violation of Iowa Code section 321J.2. On appeal, she contends the district court <br> erred in denying her motion to suppress evidence allegedly ob... More...
$0 (09-15-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. CASEY FREDERIKSEN
A Floyd County jury convicted Casey Frederiksen of murder in the first <br> degree and sexual abuse in the first degree for offenses committed against the <br> five-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. Frederiksen now challenges his <br> convictions on three grounds. First, he disputes the sufficiency of the State’s <br> proof that he was the perpetrator. Second, he contends the distr... More...
$0 (08-11-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. ANTONIO HUTCHINS
Antonio Hutchins shot two men in a grocery store parking lot; one of the <br> men died. Hutchins admitted to the shootings but claimed self-defense. A jury <br> found him guilty of first-degree murder and willful injury.1 On appeal, Hutchins <br> contends (I) the district court unreasonably limited his opening statement and (II) <br> the district court abused its discretion in excluding (A) evi... More...
$0 (08-11-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. ZYRIAH HENRY FLOYD SCHLITTER
In this appeal from convictions of involuntary manslaughter by<br> commission of public offense and child endangerment resulting in death,<br> we primarily consider a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel<br> based on the failure to challenge the sufficiency of evidence to support<br> the submission of all four alternative means of committing the crime of<br> child endangerment. On our ... More...
$0 (06-12-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. ISAIAH RICHARD SWEET
On May 11, 2012, seventeen-year-old Isaiah Sweet shot and killed Richard and Janet Sweet. Richard and Janet had cared for Sweet since he was four years old, as his biological mother was unable to do so. Richard was Sweet’s biological grandfather. Richard and Janet had been married for thirty years. Sweet was arrested three days after the murder. After being given Miranda warnings, Sweet de... More...
$0 (05-27-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. JUAN OSCAR CANTU
Juan Oscar Cantu was arrested during the Davenport Police Department’s <br> investigation of a suspected drug distribution ring in late 2014, which involved <br> controlled buys of cocaine, surveillance, and a search of Cantu’s motel room that <br> led to the discovery of over 221 grams of powder cocaine and items associated <br> with the sale of narcotics. Cantu was ultimately convicted of p... More...
$0 (05-12-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. JOSHUA BRUCE MATHES
At approximately 2:45 a.m. on October 1, 2013, Des Moines police officer <br> Greg Trimble was flagged down by a naked woman, later identified as M.C. As <br> Officer Trimble approached her, he “could see that it looked like she’d been <br> assaulted.” Trimble called for backup. One of the responding officers, Officer <br> Natalie Licht, arrived to find Officer Trimble talking with M.C. ... More...
$0 (04-28-2016 - IA)State of Iowa v. Kenneth Osborne Ary
A defendant appealed his conviction following a jury trial on three counts of delivery of a controlled substance in violation of Iowa Code section 124.401(1)(c)(3) (2013). We transferred the case to the court of appeals. The court of appeals reversed the conviction on the ground the defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial by an impartial jury was violated when he was convicted by jurors... More...
$0 (04-09-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. THEODORE RAY GATHERCOLE II
On June 15, 2013, Frederick Rottmiller was a maintenance man at a Cedar Rapids apartment building. Rottmiller, a septuagenarian, was called to an apartment occupied by Theodore Gathercole and his ex-wife to inspect a water leak. While there, Rottmiller loaned Gathercole twenty dollars. Hours later, after midnight, Gathercole knocked on Rottmiller’s apartment door and asked for more money, cla... More...
$0 (03-25-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. DERRICK JAMAAL MCELROY
The jury was instructed the State would have to prove the following elements of first-degree murder: <br> (1) On or about the 8th day of May, 2011, the Defendant shot Brandyn Preston; (2) Brandyn Preston died as a result of being shot; (3) The Defendant acted with malice aforethought; (4) The Defendant acted willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly and with a specific intent to kill a person.... More...
$0 (03-23-2016 - IA)IOWA INDIVIDUAL HEALTH BENEFIT REINSURANCE ASSOCIATION vs. STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, and UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA
This appeal involves two statutes addressing access to health insurance, specifically high-risk policies for individuals with preexisting medical conditions. An overview of this legislation provides context for the issues on appeal. In 1986, the legislature enacted Iowa Code chapter 514E, which created the Iowa Comprehensive Health Insurance Association (ICHIA). See 1986 Iowa Acts ch. 1156, § ... More...
$0 (03-18-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. DONALD BENJAMIN EARL REED
In this appeal, we review a twenty-seven-year-old defendant’schallenges to his sentence of up to 100 years for drug dealing, child endangerment, and possession of firearms. The jury found the defendant guilty on those offenses, which he committed as an adult. The firearm conviction automatically doubled the sentence for his cocaine offense from twenty-five to fifty years. The district court h... More...
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