STATE v. WRIGHT

No. 19-0180.

961 N.W.2d 396 (2021)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Nicholas Dean WRIGHT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colin C. Murphy (argued) of Gourley Rehkemper Lindholm, P.L.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Linda J. Hines (argued), Assistant Attorney General, Carlyle D. Dalen , County Attorney, and Steven D. Tynan , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

McDonald, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Oxley and McDermott, JJ., joined, and in which Appel, J., joined as to divisions I, IV(B)-(E), and V. Appel, J., filed a special concurrence. Christensen, C.J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Waterman and Mansfield, JJ., joined. Waterman, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Christensen, C.J., and Mansfield, J., joined. Mansfield, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, J., joined.


"Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen." Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 485, 48 S.Ct. 564, 575, 72 L.Ed. 944 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting), overruled in part by...

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