Tag: The Wolf

Doggonit

Boone County, Iowa.  A client for GRL attorney Matt Lindholm (aka The Wolf), recently had his operating while intoxicated charge dismissed.  The client was charged with OWI after law enforcement officers obtained a search warrant and took a sample of his blood for chemical testing.  A motion to suppress was filed challenging the admissibility of the blood test results arguing that the State cannot just obtain a search warrant for a blood sample on a standard OWI case, and that the client’s rights to a phone call were violated because he was not allowed sufficient time to speak to an […]

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Rolled to NFG

Wayne County, Iowa.  Attorney Matt Lindholm (aka The Wolf) recently obtained a NFG (Not Friggin Guilty) verdict from a Wayne County jury for a client facing an OWI second offense charge.  The client was charged following a roll over accident.  At trial officers testified that the client’s speech was slurred, he had blood shot eyes, failed the horizontal gaze nystagmus test, and refused to submit to a breath test.  Video was shown to the jury depicting the client’s speech, his eyes, and the circumstances surrounding his refusal to submit to a breath test (i.e. because he was unable to speak […]

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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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Independent Test Requests Mean Something

Madison County, Iowa.  Attorney Matt Lindholm (aka The Wolf), recently found success for his client who was facing a charge of operating while intoxicated.  The client requested an independent test following the submission to the breath test at the station but the officer who arrested the client dictated where that independent test would be conducted.  Attorney Lindholm filed a motion to suppress arguing that the breath test results were not admissible because she was not allowed an “independent test” since the officer dictated where the test was going to be done.  The judge agreed and suppressed the breath test results.  […]

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Late Night Parking

Winnebago County, Iowa.  A client facing an OWI charge in Winnebago County after being stopping while parked in a parking lot late at night made the right decision by hiring GRL Attorney Matt Lindholm (aka The Wolf).  After reviewing the video footage from the officer’s investigation Attorney Lindholm filed a motion to suppress arguing that the clients was subjected to an unreasonable search and seizure because he was not engage in any suspicious activity when he was stopped and that his rights to an independent test were violated.  Upon review of the motion to suppress, the State agreed and dismissed […]

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