Joshua Venckus v. City of Iowa City

APPEL, Justice (concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I. Introduction.

After being acquitted by a jury of a rape charge, Joshua Venckus alleges that police and prosecutors recklessly ignored evidence proving he was innocent, improperly engaged in expert shopping after a state criminologist provided them with an unfavorable opinion, filed an ethics complaint against Venckus's attorney over an unrelated matter that state authorities ultimately dismissed, threatened one of Venckus's alibi witnesses if he did not change his testimony, and offered the actual rapist a lenient plea deal in order…