In Re The Detention Of Gelen Kendrick Shaffer Galen Kendrick Shaffer

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 08–1358 Filed July 17, 2009 IN RE THE DETENTION OF GELEN KENDRICK SHAFFER GALEN KENDRICK SHAFFER, Appellee. Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County, Thomas N. Bower, Judge. Appeal of dismissal of petition for civil commitment of a sexually violent predator. REVERSED AND REMANDED. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Linda J. Hines and Becky Goettsch, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant. Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Michael H. Adams, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee. 2 CADY, Justice. In this appeal, we must decide…