Legal Opinion
State v. Iowa District Court for Webster County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 8, 2011No. 09-0982PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Justice.
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, “No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” According to section 903A.2(l)(a) (2007) of the Iowa Code, an incarcerated sex offender is not eligible for an earned-time reduction of sentence unless that person completes a sex offender treatment program. The question presented here is whether section 903A.2(l)(u) violates the Fifth Amendment rights of a convicted sex offender, when successful completion of the treatment program would require him to acknowledge…
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