IN RE DETENTION OF SCHUMAN

No. 22-1521.

2 N.W.3d 33 (2024)

IN RE DETENTION OF Stewart Franklin SCHUMAN, State of Iowa, Appellant,

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed January 19, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenna Bird , Attorney General, and Linda J. Hines (argued) and Keisha F. Crestinger , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Michael H. Adams (argued), Local Public Defender, Special Defense Unit, Des Moines, for appellee.

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined except Mansfield, J., who filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.


This case presents questions of whether the district court erred by ordering the placement of a sexually violent predator in a transitional release program over the State's objection and the proper form of appellate review. The State argues the offender was ineligible for that program without a relapse prevention plan (RPP) accepted...

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