Norton v. Iowa District Court for Cedar County

SACKETT, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Bradley L. Norton, an attorney at law, seeks a writ of certiorari challenging the district court’s denial of a portion of the attorney fees he claims are due him for representing Robert Lee Baker, an indigent juvenile charged with two counts of first-degree murder and found guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter. We sustain the writ in part and annul the writ in part.

Baker, then fifteen years of age, was charged in juvenile court with committing two delinquent acts which would both be first-degree murder if committed by an adult. Baker had given a…