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STATE v. TRIGON, INC.

No. 02-0213.

657 N.W.2d 441 (2003)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. TRIGON, INC. and Karl Thompson, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 26, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik, Assistant Attorney General, and David C. Thompson, County Attorney, for appellant.

Matthew Nagle and Patrick J. O'Connell of Lynch, Dallas, Smith & Harman, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellees.

NEUMAN, Justice.

On a windy December day, nineteen-year old Dan Ross fell sixty feet to his death while working on a telecommunication tower being built by defendant Trigon, Inc. Following an investigation, the corporation and its president, defendant Karl Thompson, were charged with willfully violating Iowa's Occupational Health and Safety Act (IOSHA), a serious misdemeanor. See Iowa Code §§ 88.5, 88.14(5) (1999).

Thompson moved to suppress...

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