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STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 97-907.

594 N.W.2d 38 (1999)

STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER, Plaintiff, v. IOWA DISTRICT COURT FOR MUSCATINE COUNTY, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Wegman, State Public Defender, and Mark C. Smith, First Assistant State Public Defender, Des Moines, for plaintiff.

John E. Wunder, Muscatine, for defendant.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, CARTER, SNELL, and TERNUS, JJ.

CARTER, Justice.

In this original certiorari proceeding the State Public Defender (public defender) asks this court to hold that the district court may not approve a fee claim by an attorney appointed in a contempt proceeding based on an hourly rate that is greater than that allowed for court-appointed counsel in criminal matters or in juvenile court. After reviewing the record and considering the arguments presented, we do so hold and sustain the writ of certiorari...

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