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Woodward and Ruther laid out five similar defenses to the claim. "Should this defendant be at fault ... said fault should be compared with that of the plaintiff and/or other parties," both defense attorneys said in their respective motions. The attorneys were referencing Iowa Code 688, which requires judges to consider how at fault parties in the case are in comparison to each other. In a case where the plaintiff does bear some fault, the amount of damages incurred by the plaintiff are to be reduced in accordance with the amount of fault the plaintiff bears. In criminal cases, the jury is not...

After several pandemic-related hiatuses, misdemeanor trials have resumed in Des Moines County. "They weren't doing any trials in October," Des Moines County Attorney Lisa Schaefer told the Des Moines County supervisors Tuesday during the board's regular weekly meeting. In March 2020, the Iowa Supreme Court postponed all trials until further notice. Trials resumed in mid-September but once again were put on hold in mid-November. Trials resumed again on Feb. 1. The courthouse has four courtrooms which normally allow four trials at once. However, with the COVID-19 guidelines, only the third-flo...

Bob Saar Des Moines County supervisors Thomas Broeker, chair, Jim Cary and Shane McCampbell met Tuesday to hear the latest COVID numbers and got some good news — relative to all of 2020 — from DMC public health director Christa Poggemiller. "We're rolling out the vaccine," Poggemiller said. She said as of Sunday 1,162 DMC residents were vaccinated for a DMC total of 1,537; out-of-county health workers and others who qualify are included in the overall total even though they don't live here. "We gave more vaccines yesterday, so we anticipate that number will be higher come tomorrow," Pogge...