COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) — The trial that will decide whether Pottawattamie County Supervisor Scott Belt is removed from office began Wednesday morning at the county courthouse.

Belt is accused of being intoxicated at a town hall meeting in Carson on November 5.

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County Attorney Matt Wilber spent much of the morning examining witnesses who interacted with Belt at a bar in Carson before the town hall meeting. Defense attorney Brett Ryan cross-examined those witnesses about their own level of intoxication that night as well as their qualifications to judge someone else's intoxication.

The court also heard from county employees who were at the town hall, including PR Manager Kate Gerber, who

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