COHEN v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 92-252.

508 N.W.2d 78 (1993)

Dennis D. COHEN, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR DES MOINES COUNTY, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis D. Cohen, pro se.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Ann E. Brenden, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Pat Gunnels, Burlington City Atty., for defendant.

Heard by SCHLEGEL, P.J., and SACKETT and HABHAB, JJ.


HABHAB, Judge.

In this certiorari proceeding, we are asked to review an order of a district associate judge. That order prohibits the plaintiff, an attorney, from ever making a judgment of acquittal motion that alleges the City failed in its duty to plead and prove the municipal ordinance his client was accused of violating. The court, after concluding that similar motions had been made on previous occasions, reasoned that the motion was advanced for the purpose of...

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