Iowa defense attorneys are stunned to learn that a supervisor in the state Public Defenders Office has been moonlighting for years as a part-time police officer, saying it is a conflict of interest.
File-In this Nov. 16, 2017, file photo, Larry Whaley, left, enters a Cerro Gordo County district courtroom in Mason City, Iowa with State Public Defender Michael Adams. Adams, a supervisor in the Iowa State Public Defender's Office has a part-time side job as a local police officer, creating a potential conflict of interest.
But Adams, who supervises the special defense unit of the State Public Defender’s Office, isn’t defending Hawkins. He’s the police officer who arrested him. Multiple defense attorneys told the AP that they were stunned to learn that a high-ranking public defender was allowed to moonlight as a police officer.The conflict burst into public view this month in a murder case involving 51-year-old Jeffrey Stendrup, who is charged in the beating death of a man at a Colfax home last year. Since last year, Stendrup has been represented by lawyers from the unit that Adams supervises.
He said an ethics review conducted by one of his subordinates this month concluded that his unit could continue to represent defendants against charges involving Colfax as long as he’s not involved on either side of the case. But he said that going forward, his unit will recuse itself from Colfax cases.
City records show that most of his police work has been as an unpaid volunteer, but that he makes $15 per hour when covering an occasional shift. He earned $122,000 at his public defender job last year.
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