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In Iowa, the Supreme's keep sliding down the charts with these latest flops.

Court orders new drunken driving trial

An individual was detained because of speeding and weaving on the road.

The individual smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and failed sobriety tests at the scene. Two open beer cans were found in the car.

The Iowa Supreme Court tossed the conviction because the individual was not allowed to call his mother.

In addition, all statements the blabbering idiot made, along with his refusal to take a blood test were suppressed.

Court throws out Davenport man’s drug conviction

This time the justices dismissed charges from a traffic stop where police found a brick of marijuana in a car’s trunk.

The driver acknowledged the marijuana was his and was told of his rights, handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a patrol car.

He then let officers search his home, where more evidence was found. After being asked by an officer and agreeing to cooperate in future drug investigations, the individual was given an inventory of items seized in the search and a business card and told to call the officer.

The court said that prosecutors failed to file charges against a man within 45 days of his arrest.

Even though he was only detained and never arrested at the original stop.

The third strike for the court comes from a woman serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder, which she committed at age 14.

The Iowa Supreme Court said the woman can challenge her sentence as cruel and unusual punishment.

Cruel and unusual?

The murderer, a runaway from a youth detention center, stabbed her 66 year old victim 23 times and also severely beat her until she eventually died.

To most people that would be the cruel and unusual part and the scientific community is united in that fact.

This murderer then took her victim's car, credit cards and checkbook and drove with friends to Iowa City, where the credit cards were used to finance a shopping spree.

The cleaning of the court's needs to continue in 2012 and 2016.