State v. Hill

CARTER, Justice.

This appeal is here as a result of our prior action granting the State’s request for discretionary review of an order setting bail.

The appellee, James Douglas Hill, is a parolee from a sentence of imprisonment imposed following his conviction of a crime in the state of Nevada. Sometime in 1980, he was accepted for supervision in Iowa under the Interstate Probation and Parole Compact, Iowa Code section 247.40 (1981). On May 20, 1982, parole authorities from Nevada issued a “warrant for retaking paroled prisoners” reciting that appellee had violated the terms of his parole and…