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West Des Moines Criminal Law Firm
About Stowers & Nelsen
Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
Honors
- Listed "The Best Lawyers in America."
- Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
- Martindale Hubbell Peer Review Rating- AV
- Listed "Top 100 Trial Lawyers"
- Listed "Great Plains Super Lawyers"
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
Published Works
- Juror Bias Undiscovered During Voir Dire, 29 Drake L. Rev. 201, 1990
- Casenote, 38 Drake L. Rev. 961, 1989
Representative Cases
- U.S. v. Cornelius, 968 F.2d 703 (8th Cir. 1992)
- Ginsberg v. D.O.T., 508 N.W.2d 663 (Iowa 1993)
- Huyser v. Iowa District Court, 499 N.W. 2d 1 (Iowa 1993)
- U.S. v. Cornelius, 999 F.2d 1293 (8th Cir. 1993)
- U.S. v. O'Conner, 64 F.3d 355 (8th Cir. 1995)
- U.S. v. Halter, 217 F.3d 551 (8th Cir. 2000)
- State v. Hager, 630 N.W.2d 828 (Iowa 2001)
- U.S. v. Moyer, 244 F.3d 666 (8th Cir. 2001)
- U.S. v. Cruz, 285 F .3d 692 (8th Circuit 2002)
- State v. Esse, WL2367779 (Iowa App 2005)
- State v. Lowe, 812 N.W.2d 554 (Iowa 2012)
- In re the Detention of Jonathan Edwin Stenzel, 827 N.W.2d 690 (Iowa 2013)
Fees
Accepts Credit Cards
Office Information
Address
650 South Prairie View DriveSuite 130 West Des Moines, IA 50266
Phone
Fax
- 515-225-6215
Websites
- http://www.interstatedrugbust.com (Property Seizure & Asset Forfeiture)
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