STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER v. IOWA DIST. COURT

No. 02-0164.

663 N.W.2d 413 (2003)

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

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 11, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Becker, State Public Defender, and Julie Miller, Assistant State Public Defender, for plaintiff.


TERNUS, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the district court had authority to consider a tardy motion to review the state public defender's decision on an attorney fee claim. We hold it did not, and therefore we sustain a writ of certiorari challenging the court's ruling on the late-filed motion.

I. Background. Attorney Alan Bohanan represented an indigent mother in a child-in-need-of-assistance case. Upon completion of the case, he filed a...

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