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LENNETTE v. STATE

No. 20-1148.

975 N.W.2d 380 (2022)

Andrew LENNETTE, Individually and on behalf of C.L., O.L., and S.L., Minor Children, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Melody Siver, Amy Howell, and Valerie Lovaglia, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 10, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin A. Diaz (argued) of Martin Diaz Law Firm, Swisher, and Natalie H. Cronk of Kennedy, Gelner, Cronk & Waterman, P.C., Iowa City, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Thompson (argued), Solicitor General, and Noah Goerlitz and Job Mukkada , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellees.

Mansfield, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Appel, Waterman, McDonald, and McDermott, JJ., joined. Appel, J., filed a concurrence. McDonald, J., filed a concurrence. Oxley, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

I. Introduction.

Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,

Between whose endless jar justice resides....

William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida act I, sc. 3.

Our legal system is sometimes messy. Mistakes get made. But in the end, our legal system usually stumbles to the right...

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