Hughes v. State

The applicant, Dexter Hughes, appeals the district court’s denial of his application for postconvietion relief from prison disciplinary proceedings. At issue is the extent to which a prison investigator has a duty to obtain witness statements for inmates involved in prison disciplinary proceedings. Hughes contends the prison investigator has a duty to locate and obtain statements from witnesses whether or not the inmate actually knows the identity of the requested witnesses. We believe the prison investigator has no such duty. We affirm.

Hughes, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary, was…