Mr. Rehkemper accepted my case when many other attorneys I consulted with expressed discouragement. He was direct and honest from the start and kept me well informed throughout the lawsuit proceedings. Mr. Rehkemper is empathetic and it shows in how he handles your case and treats his clients. Don’t mistake his kindness as weakness though…Mr. […]
Webster County, Iowa- A GRL Law client was charged with OWI 3rd offense, a lifetime 5th OWI offense. GRL attorney Grant Gangestad filed a motion to suppress evidence in the OWI prosecution based upon an illegal and unconstitutional traffic stop of the client’s vehicle. After reviewing the video, the prosecutor agreed to amend the charge […]
Readers of the blog are no doubt aware of GRL Law’s work on warrantless garbage searches. Earlier this summer, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled the police practice unconstitutional in State v. Wright, but remanded the case to the district court for a second look at the warrant. This time the district court could not consider […]
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Some things you must see to believe. The prosecution and law enforcement attempted to convince a judge to not believe what everyone could clearly see. Thankfully, the judge believed what he too could see. Two Iowa City Police Department police officers, Maddie Friedrich and her Field Training Officer, Brad Reinhard, […]
Today, the magistrate court dismissed charges against a GRL Law client whose dog bit a DMPD officer. The evidence showed the officer attempted to coax our client into the common area of her downtown loft to “discuss” a complaint. However, when she declined, the officer crossed the threshold of the door to arrest her. That’s […]
Earlier this year GRL convinced the Iowa Supreme Court to outlaw the police tactic of warrantless garbage searches in State v. Wright. We haven’t rested on our laurels since the ruling. Instead, we got to work in several counties where these trash rips resulted in felony charges. A recent case in southeastern Iowa was no […]
Union County, Iowa. A GRL client recently had charges for possession of a dangerous weapon, possession of marijuana, and operating while intoxicated charges dismissed. The dismissal was entered by the prosecuting attorney after attorney Matt Lindholm filed a motion to suppress alleging that evidence in the case was obtained illegally as a result of a […]
Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa. The Iowa Supreme Court confirmed what the Iowa Supreme Court said back in 2004, a single, isolated incident of a driver crossing over the fog line (solid white line on edge of road) does not create a sufficient reasonable suspicion that the driver is intoxicated. The facts in the case were […]
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. GRL Law has long argued that Department of Transportation Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement Officers cannot legally stop commercial drivers without reasonable suspicion of a law violation. It has long been the practice of Iowa law enforcement officers to randomly stop commercial vehicles to weigh them or check compliance with regulations. […]
In what may be the first ruling of its kind in Buchanan County, a GRL client is a free man today after the district court there suppressed the search of his semi truck and dismissed all charges. At issue was the Level II inspection criteria that many counties with weight stations impermissibly use to justify […]
