Prosecutor Sanctioned

An assistant county attorney who had forged a judge’s name to a court order in a juvenile matter was suspended by the Iowa Supreme Court for not less than nine months. The attorney had a prior record of similar misconduct as well as a previous sanction for a conflict of interest. The attorney had a history of depression but the court was not convinced that his mental state was sufficiently causally related to the misconduct to be treated as a substantial mitigating factor. (Mike Frisch)