Notable Cases

Charges:  Felony forgery and felony theft.  Forgery dismissed and client entered plea to misdemeanor theft.  Suspended sentence with unsupervised probation.

Charges:  Felony forgery and 11 counts of harassment.  Hired handwriting expert to challenge state’s evidence of forgery.  Forgery and 8 harassment charges dismissed.  Defendant pled to 3 harassment counts and received suspended sentence with probation.

Charge:  Manufacturing Methamphetamine with intent to deliver—greater than 5 grams, Class B Felony.  Negotiated amendment to Class C charge, sentence to run concurrent with another drug charge in Wayne County.

Presently representing client on post-conviction appeal from 1987 murder conviction.  Working with forensic expert and Iowa Innocence Project seeking grounds for retrial and/or exoneration.

Charge:  Felony charge of armed sexual battery.  Client charged with raping teenage daughter with weapon.  Defense demonstrated psychiatric and credibility problems of complaining witness.  Motions for physical and psychiatric examinations of complaining witness led to negotiated plea of no contest, with three years probation.

Client’s daughter was coached by father and ex-husband to falsely accuse mother of sexual abuse.  Child’s therapist engaged in unprofessional and improper questioning of child, leading child to believe she had been abused.  Using expert witnesses to analyze the history of contacts between child and therapist, I filed a pretrial motion requesting a taint hearing…