Legal Opinion
Kelly v. Nix
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided January 19, 1983No. 68503PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHULTZ, Justice.
This appeal arises from a district court decision upholding an inmate’s challenge of his prison disciplinary proceedings. For the reasons discussed herein, we reverse and remand.
On November 20, 1981, Warner S. Kelly, who was then serving a ninety year sentence for second degree murder, received a disciplinary notice advising him that he was charged with violating the prison rule against assault. He was informed that he was accused of assaulting another inmate, one Calhoun, on November 14, 1981, while both men had been incarcerated in a medium security portion of the…
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- Fichtner v. Iowa State PenitentiarySupreme Court of Iowa · 1979
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