State v. Glanton

HARRIS, Justice.

Respondent presided as judge of the Des Moines municipal court in the trial of City of Des Moines v. Shirley Dee Steve. That case was a prosecution under a municipal ordinance proscribing the making of false police reports. A violation of the ordinance is a misdemeanor. After the prosecution completed its attempted showing, the case was dismissed because of insufficiency of the evidence.

We granted a writ of certiorari to test the State’s claim respondent illegally suppressed evidence offered by the prosecution and abused his discretion by assuming the role of advocate for the…