Green v. Iowa District Court for Mills County

McGIYERIN, Chief Justice.

Upon the State’s application for further review of a court of appeals remand order, we consider this certiorari action concerning the district court’s award of a court-appointed attorney fee to the plaintiff H. Walter Green as defense counsel in a criminal case. We annul the writ of certiorari.

I. Background facts and proceedings. Plaintiff Green served as court-appointed defense counsel in a first-degree murder trial in Mills County. He was appointed by the court, see Iowa Code section 815.10 (1985), in October 1985 to represent an indigent criminal defendant and…