Tag: not guilty

2 NFG’s in 1 Day

GRL was busy yesterday doing what we enjoy most – Jury trials.  Bobby Rehkemper was in Ames, Story County and Matt Lindholm was in Corning, Adams County.  Both client’s were charged with operating while intoxicated accusations and declined to submit to the evidentiary breath test at the station.  The prosecution claimed that the defendant’s demonstrated observable impairment after drinking which was hotly contested.  Bobby and Matt aggressively defended each case and were successful in securing GRL’s most recent batch of NFG’s!  Cheers to the Daily NFG Double!

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OWI Blood Test Result – Not Guilty

Indianola, Warren County, Iowa.  A Warren County Jury found GRL’s client NOT GUILTY at trial.  In an unusual case, GRL’s client was prosecuted for OWI after another driver who was high on methamphetamine, crossed the center line and hit him in a head-on collision.  GRL’s client was taken to the hospital for medical treatment and even though officers did not observe any evidence of impairment, a search warrant was obtained and his blood was withdrawn.  The test result was .084 nearly four hours after the accident.  After careful consideration of all of the evidence the jury found GRL’s client NFG.

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Quick to Admit Quick to Acquit

Page County, Iowa.  GRL Attorney Matt Lindholm (aka The Wolf) obtained a not guilty verdict for a client facing an operating while intoxicated accusation in Page County Iowa.  The client was stopped around 1:00 A.M. and immediately suspected of being intoxicated.  The client informed the officer that he had not been drinking and had been at his parents all day helping them remodel their house.  The officer concluded the client was intoxicated because he had blood shot eyes, slurred speech, failed field sobriety tests, and refused a breath test.  The videos in the case painted a different picture however and […]

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Jury exonerates man of sexual abuse allegation from 20 years ago

HAMILTON COUNTY – Client was charged with Sex Abuse in the Second Degree based on an allegation claimed to have occurred 17 years prior.  After being initially charged, the Assistant County Attorney who was handling the case filed a Motion to Dismiss the case.  Before the motion could be granted by the Court, the head County Attorney, who was personally affiliated with the complaining witnesses father, withdrew the Motion to Dismiss.  Months later the case was turned over to the Iowa Attorney General’s Office to continue with the prosecution.  Three years after the charge was brought against him, the case […]

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Jury Finds GRL’s Client NOT GUILTY of Sexual Abuse

Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa.  GRL’s client was found NOT GUILTY by a Davis County jury after a long, 2-year fight against sexual abuse allegations.  GRL’s client consistently maintained his innocence from the day the accusation was made, all the way through trial.  He passed up a plea offer that would have included probation, insisting on the fact that he was innocent of the accusations.  With everything on the line the case was presented to a Davis County Jury over a span of 5-days.  After approximately two hours of deliberations the jury unanimously found GRL’s client NOT GUILTY of all charges.  […]

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Vehicular Homicide DISMISSED Halfway Through Jury Trial

Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa.  Vehicular Homicide charge against GRL’s client was dismissed by the court because the prosecution failed to present enough evidence for the case to continue any further forward at trial. GRL’s client was charged with Vehicular Homicide under Iowa’s texting and driving law after he was involved in a tragic accident with a bicyclist on a county highway that resulted in the bicyclist’s death.  GRL’s client stayed on the scene, called 911, attempted to assist the bicyclists and cooperated fully with law enforcement.  When law enforcement arrived he explained that he did not see the cyclists […]

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41 + 20 = 61 NFGs

Waukee, Dallas County, Iowa.  Not Guilty on another 20 charges brings the total of NFG’s in one case to 61.  After a jury returned Not Guilty verdicts on 41 counts of Harassment in the First Degree, the prosecutor still pressed on with the remaining 20 counts of simple misdemeanor Harassment in the Third Degree.  Those charges were finally brought to trial and the magistrate found GRL’s client Not Guilty of all the accusations.  This case required a little extra perseverance but patience paid off with a total of 61 Not Guilty verdicts in one case.

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Not Guilty x 41 Counts

Adel, Dallas County, Iowa.  A Dallas County Jury found GRL Law’s client not guilty on a total of 41 counts after slightly over an hour of deliberation.  In one of the first prosecutions under a new law passed in 2018, the State accused GRL Law’s client of what has been commonly referred to as “Revenge Porn.”  The new law makes it a crime to “disseminate, publish, distribute, post or cause to be disseminated, published, distributed or posted, a photograph or film showing another person in a state of full or partial nudity or engaged in a sex act” with the […]

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NOT GUILTY of Conspiracy to Commit Theft

Norwalk, Warren County, Iowa.  It took almost two years of fighting but persistence paid off.  The Iowa Court of Appeals agreed that GRL Law’s client was Not Guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Theft.  In a prosecution riddled with misconduct, GRL Law’s client was convicted of a crime she did not commit.  She waived her right to request a deferred judgment on the offense to ensure that she had the right to appeal the improper conviction. GRL Law pressed on defending her innocence pro bono (for free) on appeal to the Iowa Court of Appeals.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the […]

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