STATE v. MILLER

No. 00-0644.

637 N.W.2d 201 (2001)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Oliver Vernon MILLER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 19, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, Tricia A. Johnston, Assistant State Appellate Defender, and Don Schroeder, West Liberty, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Karen Doland, Assistant Attorney General, and James Detaeye, County Attorney, for appellee.


NEUMAN, Justice.

This is a case about mixed messages.

Angered over the outcome of a trial, Oliver Miller reduced $25 in court costs to pennies, wrapped them in socks and barbed wire, and sent them to the Marshall County clerk of court in a crudely-taped Valvoline Oil box. He affixed no return address to the package and, in a deliberate fit of pique, misspelled the name of the clerk, Doloris Falstrup, as Doloris "Fascistrup." Block letters on one side of the...

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