Trish Mehaffey

Lawyers for a Manchester man who was convicted of killing Michelle Martinko in 1979 argued Friday during his appeal that his conviction should be overturned because police didn’t have a warrant when it retrieved his DNA from a straw in the trash.

A former Iowa City elementary school counselor, who had his sex abuse conviction overturned in 2016, was awarded $12 million in a lawsuit for negligence.

A Cedar Rapids woman chosen as a juror in August was charged with perjury for not disclosing she knew the man on trial and made false statements under oath.

A Wellman man is suing Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for giving him 10 times the dose of an opioid drug for pain that a doctor prescribed after he broke his ribs in a fall.

A Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted as a juvenile in 2010 fatal robbery, was arrested this week by U.S. marshals on 12 warrants for gun and drug charges.

An ex-trooper, who faced a second trial, pleaded this week to using unreasonable force on a motorcyclist in 2017. He admitted to striking the compliant Davenport man on Sept. 25, 2017 and knocking him backwards onto his cycle.

A domestic violence consultant testified Tuesday that Jacqueline Holmes of Cedar Rapids, on trial for fatally stabbing her boyfriend, was a battered woman.

The girlfriend of a Cedar Rapids man fatally stabbed in 2020, during a police interview, changed her story numerous times of what happened and how her boyfriend was injured.

A prosecutor said Thursday a Cedar Rapids woman wouldn’t give vital information to a 911 dispatcher after she fatally stabbed a man in Cedar Rapids in 2020. The defense said she was a victim or abuse and was defending herself.

A Chicago pharmacologist, testifying for the defense, said Tuesday that a Marion woman died from the high level of meth in her system, instead of the 26 stabbing injuries that an autopsy stated was her cause of death.

A forensic psychiatrist testified Monday that a Marion man couldn’t distinguish right from wrong when he killed his ex-girlfriend in 2017 and that he was suffering from meth-induced psychosis when he stabbed her 26 times.

A California man pleaded to a drug conspiracy charge after being nabbed at the LA airport for trying to smuggle meth onto a plane. He is one of 11 men charged in Cedar Rapids meth trafficking ring.

A judge will review an independent competency exam of Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted last year for sex assault of incapacitated Iowa City woman and video recording it, to determine if can stand trial in three more sex assault trials.

A deputy medical examiner said 26 stab injuries to 29-year-old Carrie Davis were “sufficient” to kill her.

A former Cedar Rapids man who fled the country over 7 years ago was convicted this week for distributing synthetic marijuana from a smoke shop.