STATE v. MARTINEZ

No. 15-0671.

896 N.W.2d 737 (2017)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Martha Aracely MARTINEZ, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip B. Mears of Mears Law Office, Iowa City, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Darrel Mullins , Assistant Attorney General, and Alan R. Ostergren , County Attorney, for appellee.

Lori T. Chesser and Sarah E. Crane of Davis Brown Law Firm, Des Moines, for amici curiae DREAM Iowa, CASA of Sioux County, Immigrant Allies of Marshalltown, Diocese of Davenport Immigration Program, Casa Latina Mary Treglia Community House, Southwest Iowa Latino Resource Center, and Justice for Our Neighbors.

John A. Hathaway of Kasaby & Nicholls, LLC, Omaha, Nebraska, Bram T.B. Elias , University of Iowa College of Law Clinical Law Programs, Iowa City, and Rita Bettis of ACLU of Iowa, Des Moines, for amicus curiae ACLU of Iowa.


In this case, we are called upon to determine if an undocumented noncitizen brought to Iowa as an eleven-year-old child by her parents, educated in Iowa public schools, who has lived in Iowa continuously, who is a mother of four children who are citizens of the United States, and who applied for and was granted deferred action under...

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