The suspect in quadruple murder is due now back in court to face upgraded charges.
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The suspect in quadruple murder is due now back in court to face upgraded charges.
Retired Linn County Chief Public Defender Brian Sissel suddenly died of a heart attack this week. Judges, friends, co-workers and court staff fondly remember Sissel as “zealous advocate’ for his clients and being a ‘sincere, positive energy force’ who could lighten the mood with his ‘infectious laugh.’
Shane Teslik was sentenced to 10 years for fatally stabbing Devonna Walker. Walker’s mother said the ‘heartless, racist act of violence has devastated’ her family. She is now caring for Walker’s three children.
A Marion man is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in fatal pipe attack Wednesday in an outbuilding on a Marion property. He is being held on a $4 million cash-only bail pending trial.
An Illinois man who fatally shot a Fareway employee outside the store in Monicello last year pleaded to first-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the deaths of three people who were found in an outbuilding on a property north of Robins Wednesday afternoon. A fourth person was in critical condition.
A judge won’t lower or increase the $1 million bail for a Shellsburg man charged with helping a wife kill her husband in 2021.
A Cedar Rapids surgery center has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve allegations it failed to maintain accurate records and controls and procedures to prevent theft and misuse of pain medications. The civil allegations stem from a criminal case of a former nurse stealing fentanyl from the center.
Former Clutier city clerk embezzled over $108,000 while employed from 2016 to 2018. She wrote unauthorized checks to herself, deposited residents’ utility payments into her checking account and used the city’s credit card for personal purchases. She was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison following state court theft conviction.
Chemical castration uses medications that block testosterone production to decrease sex drive. Surgical castration is a much more invasive procedure.
Chief Judge Thomas Bower of the Iowa Court of Appeals will take early retirement in July after serving 31 years on the bench and a total of 38 years in the legal profession. He says it’s time to spend more time with his family, including a new grandchild, and do some traveling.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder after he fatally assaulted his 71-year-old mother in 2020.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison on charges that he sold methamphetamine and laundered the funds associated with the drug trafficking.
An Iowa City man — with an accumulating history of protest-styled political activism — is suing the University of Iowa, its police, and a public records officer for a lack of what he characterized as legally-required transparency around his December police encounter.
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