Legal Opinion
James v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 24, 1991No. 90-1130, 90-1137PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGIVERIN, Chief Justice.
In unrelated proceedings, applicants Roger W. James and Robert John Miller, inmates at the Iowa State Men’s Reformatory, were found guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules. After applicants had separately exhausted their administrative remedies, 1 each filed an application in the district court seeking postconviction relief. See Iowa Code §§ 663A.2(6) and 663A.3 (1989). The district court denied both applications and James and Miller have appealed.
These cases were consolidated for purposes of appeal because of the similarity of the issues being raised by…
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