Legal Opinion
State v. Hoegh
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided September 6, 2001No. 00-1633PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CADY, Justice.
In this appeal brought by the State, we must decide if the district court was authorized to appoint a special prosecutor after the county attorney declined to prosecute a case due to a conflict of interest. The district court dismissed the trial information filed by the special prosecutor after concluding the information had been filed by an unauthorized person because the court had no authority to issue a previous order appointing a special prosecutor. On our review, we conclude the district court possessed inherent authority to appoint a special prosecutor, but was not…
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