Results - GRL Law

November 24, 2020

Polk County, Iowa. A GRL client recently received the new he was hoping for....."you are not going to lose your license or have a conviction for OWI." Fortunately, this client was astute enough to indicate to the officer that "my attorney is not here" when he was asked to submit to a breath test. This simple statement required an the arresting officer to inform him that he had the right to have an attorney come to the station and meet with him and the officer's failure to do so, precluded the DOT from revoking his driver's license. After the...

November 16, 2020

West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. The drug defense attorneys at GRL Law successfully negotiated the dismissal of drug charges after challenging the traffic stop. The arresting officer claimed in his report that "the light was red" when " traversed the intersection." His dash camera showed instead that our client's car was nearly through the intersection when the signal changed from yellow to red. There was no evidence the car entered the intersection on a yellow light. The officer later searched the car and discovered nearly 50 grams of processed marijuana flower. No tax stamps were affixed to the packaging. The...

October 25, 2020

Garner, Hancock County, Iowa. After successfully vacating two convictions through post-conviction relief efforts , the drug defense attorneys at GRL Law accomplished what former trial counsel was simply unable to do years ago: develop reasonable doubt that our client committed any felony offense involving marijuana or marijuana edibles. Our aggressive pre-trial discovery efforts raised serious questions regarding whether the alleged victim was duped into consuming chocolate containing THC. On the contrary, it appeared instead that she pilfered clearly-labeled marijuana edibles from our client's personal belongings without permission. Only after she knowingly ate her way into a hazy...