Coleman v. Iowa District Court for Linn County

CARTER, Justice.

The plaintiff in this original certiorari action was the defendant in a criminal prosecution in the district court. He challenges an order entered pursuant to Iowa Code section 902.4 (1987) which, following his parole from a sentence of incarceration, imposed shock probation with conditions requiring his confinement in a community corrections center.

Coleman was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 1985, judgment was deferred, and he was placed on probation. That probation was revoked in March 1988, and he was ordered to serve a prison sentence not to exceed five years.…