STATE v. WATSON

No. 20-1423.

970 N.W.2d 302 (2022)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Brianna Sue WATSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 18, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Winterton and Judith M. O'Donohoe of Elwood, O'Donohoe, Braun & White, LLP, New Hampton, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Thomas J. Ogden , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.


In this interlocutory appeal, we must decide whether the issuance of citations in lieu of arrest, or rather the defendant's subsequent initial appearance, starts the forty-five-day1 speedy indictment time clock in Iowa Rule of Criminal Procedure 2.33(2)(a) (2020). On July 5, 2020, the defendant...

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