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WOODBURY CTY. ATTY. v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 89-0111.

448 N.W.2d 20 (1989)

WOODBURY COUNTY ATTORNEY, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR WOODBURY COUNTY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Campbell, Asst. County Atty., for plaintiff.

William A. Shuminsky of Shuminsky, Shuminsky & Molstead, Sioux City, for real party in interest, Brandon Michael Straud.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., and Gary L. Hayward, Asst. Atty. Gen., for amicus curiae Iowa Dept. of Public Safety.

Considered by SCHULTZ, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, SNELL and ANDREASEN, JJ.

ANDREASEN, Justice.

In this original certiorari action we must determine whether the district court lawfully ordered the Woodbury county attorney to permit a civil litigant to inspect and copy certain information in the county attorney's criminal file. Finding the court had no authority to issue the order, we sustain the writ.

On March 6, 1988, an automobile accident in rural Woodbury county took the life of Jean Ann Zimmerman, the mother of Brandon Michael...

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