Legal Opinion
Risdal v. Iowa
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided February 5, 2003No. 4:01-cv-90273PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
PRATT, District Judge.
This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Before the court is respondent’s motion to dismiss for failure to exhaust state court remedies.
Background
This habeas concerns two separate disciplinary reports Risdal received in 2000 at the Iowa State Penitentiary. For each report, Risdal lost good time and was sentenced to disciplinary detention. Although he exhausted his administrative remedies, his requests for relief were denied.
In October of 2000, Risdal filed a post-conviction action in the Iowa District Court for Lee County…
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