Hauser v. State

MOORE, Chief Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal by the twelve petitioners from district court’s dismissal of their respective applications for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Code chapter 663A, the Uniform Postconviction Procedure Act.

By reason of our holding set out infra, we summarize the record and confine ourselves to the procedural matters here involved.

Each of the twelve petitioners is an International Harvester dealer in Iowa. On November 27, 1972, petitioners and 22 others in the same proceeding by their two trial attorneys pled guilty before District Court Judge Paul E.…