PHOTOS: Michael Lang trial, May 2022
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Special Agent Scot Ely with DCI shows jurors the Mossberg 500 shotgun seized from Michael Lang’s home following the standoff during trial on Wednesday.
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Defense Attorney Aaron Hawbaker
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Defense Attorney Aaron Hawbaker, left, argues during pre-trial motions on Monday, May 9, 2022, as defense attorney Konrad Kamizelich and Michael Thomas Lang look on.
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Assistant Attorney General Douglas Hammerand, standing, asked the court to disallow Michael Lang’s attorneys from arguing self-defense.
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Defense attorney Konrad Kamizelich, left, and Michael Thomas Lang during pretrial motions on Monday, May 9, 2022.
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Michael Thomas Lang listens to pre-trial motions on Monday, May 9, 2022.
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Michael Lang, far right, sits at the defendant table Tuesday during his murder trial as jurors watch bodycam video from a standoff with Iowa State Troopers at his home.
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Michael Lang during trial on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
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Michael Dorothy on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, shows jurors how Michael Lang was choking Officer Cody Niehaus following a traffic stop. Dorothy intervened, and Lang released his grasp on Niehaus.
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Assistant Attorney General Douglas Hammerand shows jurors a diagram of Michael Lang’s home during trial on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
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Assistant Attorney General Douglas Hammerand said the slaying of Sgt. Jim Smith was senseless during opening statements Tuesday.
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Defense attorney Aaron Hawbaker said Sgt. Jim Smith’s death didn’t amount to murder opening statements on Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
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Cody Niehaus, who was a reserve officer with the Grundy Center Police Department, testified Tuesday, May 10, 2022, that Michael Lang attacked him following a chase and traffic stop in April 2021.
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Still image from Cody Niehaus’ dash cam shows Michael Lang approach Niehaus’ squad car following a chase.
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Trooper Matthew Lively describes attending to Sgt. Jim Smith’s gunshot wound and pulling him to safety during Michael Thomas Lang's murder trial in Webster City on Wednesday.
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Assistant AG Douglas Hammerand shows the Bearcat armored vehicle during trial on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
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Michael Lang listens to testimony on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
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Iowa Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens speaks Saturday at a press conference regarding the officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Jim Smith during a standoff with a barricaded subject in Grundy Center on Friday.
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Iowa Department of Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens speaks at a press conference April 11 regarding the officer-involved shooting that led to the death of Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Jim Smith during a standoff with a barricaded subject in Grundy Center.
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The residence on the 300 block of G Avenue in Grundy Center where an officer-involved shooting led to the death of Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Jim Smith during a standoff with a barricaded subject on Friday, April 11, 2021.
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Dr. Dennis Klein, state medical examiner, gestures to where the bullet hit Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith while testifying Thursday during the trial of Michael Thomas Lang at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Webster City.
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Michael Thomas Lang, center, speaks to his attorneys during Thursday's trial at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Webster City.
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Assistant Attorney General Douglas Hammerand reviews evidence during Thursday's trial of Michael Thomas Lang at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Webster City.
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Michael Tate, a state firearm technician, holds a shotgun as he testifies Thursday during the trial of Michael Thomas Lang at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Webster City.
Jeff Reinitz
Police and Courts Reporter
I started with The Courier in 1999 and cover criminal justice and public safety.
WEBSTER CITY – Jury selection began Monday in the trial for a Grundy Center man accused of killing an Iowa State Patrol trooper during an Apri…
Prosecutors call death of Sgt. Jim Smith 'senseless' in opening statements, but defense contends Michael Thomas Lang's actions didn't amount to murder.
Officers responded to the area of Ankeny and Newell streets Monday shortly after 9 p.m.
WATERLOO — The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors appointed members to the American Rescue Plan Act Committee on Tuesday.
Administration will not be changing its mind, despite students and alumni expressing their displeasure with the change in programming that signals the end of a beloved tradition.
The “abandoned” space at 312 First St. East has been underutilized, with apartments not having been up there for 40 or 50 years.
DES MOINES — A Mitchell County man convicted of attempted murder in a plot inspired by the television series “Breaking Bad” will not get a new…
Jamarius Bernard Johnson was detained as a suspect in the murder following a traffic stop Tuesday in Waterloo that also resulted in the vehicle driver's arrest.
FAIRFIELD (AP) — A 17-year-old Iowa boy accused of helping a classmate kill their high school Spanish teacher last year will be tried as an ad…
"I needed to get him to someone who is a professional, and maybe there’s a chance he could be saved"
WEBSTER CITY — Testimony has ended in the trial of the man accused of killing Sgt. Jim Smith in Grundy Center in 2021.
The injuries to the juvenile were considered non-life threatening.
Woman found with a gunshot wound to her stomach in the 800 block of Fairview Avenue after police called to the scene around 8:45 p.m. Thursday.
A bullet hole in a "vacant" home at 412 Sunnyside Avenue was also discovered upon responding to the 1:33 a.m. call.
FAIRFIELD (AP) — An Iowa teenager accused of killing his high school Spanish teacher learned Thursday that he will be tried as an adult, a day…
Jurors also found Michael Thomas Lang guilty of attempted murder for shooting at armored vehicle driver, assault on officer for earlier struggle with police.
He will serve seven years and three months in federal prison for one count of firearm possession by a felon after Monday sentencing in U.S. District Court.
The Waterloo man was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to eight and half years in prison, which will be followed by three years of supervised release.