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STATE v. HOLLINRAKE

No. 99-637.

608 N.W.2d 806 (2000)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Edward J. HOLLINRAKE, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

January 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Pabst, Albia, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Martha E. Boesen, Assistant Attorney General, William S. Owens, County Attorney, and Harold Young, Special Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Heard by STREIT, P.J., VAITHESWARAN, J., and HAYDEN, S.J.

STREIT, P.J.

"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 485, 48 S.Ct. 564, 575, 72 L.Ed. 944, 960 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting). Sheriff Edward Hollinrake became a law unto himself, as Justice Brandeis feared, when he falsified public documents in order to obtain money...

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