116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Trish Mehaffey
Reporter covering state and federal courts, and whatever legal issues come my way. I also provide live coverage of criminal trials on Twitter @tmehaffey and welcome comments and questions from readers during the trials. Outside of work I love movies, tennis and my Kansas State Wildcats! Go Cats! Stay informed with the Public Safety newsletter.
Latest Articles by Trish Mehaffey
News May. 10, 2010 2:38 pm5665d ago
Robert Santon, 24, formerly of Cedar Rapids, and now living in Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to …
News May. 10, 2010 2:38 pm5665d ago
A motion to suppress statements made to police by a Marion man accused of beating to death Daniel Meade in …
News May. 10, 2010 1:36 pm5665d ago
Stephen Reid, who was sworn in today as the 12th Cedar Rapids fire chief, said the fatal fire in an …
News May. 7, 2010 5:06 pm5668d ago
U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett supports cameras being allowed in the federal courts and hopes the bipartisan “Sunshine in the …
News May. 7, 2010 12:08 pm5668d ago
A former Medicap pharmacist in Cresco, who bilked his insurance company out of more than $130,000 by submitting false prescription …
News May. 5, 2010 8:14 pm5670d ago
Jonathan Memmer, who is serving two life sentences for murdering two women in 1999, made his last appeal for a …
News May. 5, 2010 4:03 pm5670d ago
A U.S. Magistrate today denied Cedar Rapids landlord Robert Miell’s motion for a new attorney. Miell filed a motion asking …
News May. 4, 2010 1:48 pm5671d ago
Alfredo Parrish, the Des Moines attorney of Cedar Rapids landlord Robert Miell, told a federal judge today he has spent …
News May. 4, 2010 10:35 am5671d ago
Jessica Dayton, convicted of first-degree murder in Iowa County District Court last week, will be sentenced at 1 p.m. June …
News Apr. 30, 2010 3:47 pm5675d ago
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that evidence of prior sexual abuse violated a Linn County man’s due process when …
News Apr. 30, 2010 1:20 pm5675d ago
The second-degree murder trial of James Blum, 70, of Washington, was reset today in Washington County District Court to Aug. …
News Apr. 29, 2010 11:58 am5676d ago
Cedar Rapids landlord Robert Miell, who was convicted of tax and mail fraud last year, wants to fire another attorney. …
News Apr. 27, 2010 8:37 pm5678d ago
Jessica Dayton was found guilty of first-degree murder today by an Iowa County District Court jury. Dayton and her family …
News Apr. 26, 2010 6:33 pm5679d ago
Jessica Dayton told friends and a jail cell mate what happened to Curtis Bailey the night he was murdered, Assistant …
News Apr. 26, 2010 6:28 pm5679d ago
The first-degree murder trial of Lee Muldoon, 24, of Coggon, is reset to August 9. Muldoon is accused of killing …


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