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MAGHEE v. STATE

No. 99-1478.

639 N.W.2d 28 (2002)

Valentino MAGHEE, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Appellee. David Munz, Plaintiff, v. Iowa District Court for Jones County, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip B. Mears of Mears Law Office, Iowa City, for appellant and plaintiff.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Forrest Guddall and H. Loraine Wallace, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee and defendant.

CARTER, Justice.

We have consolidated an appeal and an original certiorari action, each raising the same issue. That issue is whether prison inmates challenging disciplinary action reducing good time pursuant to Iowa Code section 822.2(6) (1999) are entitled to counsel at state expense. In each of the two cases before us, the district court ruled that (1) a 1998 amendment to Iowa Code section 822.5 abrogated any statutory right to counsel at state expense in this...

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