The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of a complaint from the Attorney Disciplinary Board filed against 34-year-old Andrew Aeilts. This comes after he pleaded guilty in 2020 to malicious prosecution relating to an incident with a relative of a client of his in 2018.
From the briefing filed today by Associate Justice Dana Leanne Oxley:
“Honesty is the hallmark of the legal profession. It should go without saying that misrepresenting facts to a court and to law enforcement violates the rules of professional conduct Iowa attorneys take an oath to uphold. Attorney Andrew Aeilts appears before us after: receiving an OWI, falsely reporting a crime, and misrepresenting his professional experience during allocution to the court sentencing him on the resulting malicious prosecution charge in an effort to excuse his conduct. The Iowa Supreme Court Grievance Commission recommends we suspend Aeilts’s license for six months for his violations of Iowa Rules of Professional Conduct 32:8.4(b), 32:8.4(c), and 32:8.4(d). Upon our de novo review of the record, we suspend Aeilts’s license for six months.”
As reported previously on KNIA/KRLS, Aeilts was charged in 2018 with two counts of filing a false police report and malicious prosecution after calling the Pella Police Department, claiming the father of one of his clients was going to assault him and asked for criminal charges and a no-contact order. Court records indicate that man gave a recorded phone call to police during the...
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