Supreme Court of Iowa, 2002

The court held that the father waived his challenge to the adequacy of reunification services by failing to present it to the juvenile court before the termination hearing. It also held that termination did not violate the Fifth Amendment because the State could require treatment without compelling an admission of…

The Supreme Court of Iowa vacated the court of appeals decision and affirmed the denial of DeVoss’s postconviction-relief application. It held that the State waived its preservation defense by failing to raise it in the district court, but concluded that DeVoss failed to prove prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective…

On interlocutory appeal, the court held that Senecaut III did not preserve his challenge to the district court’s authority to reinstate the petition because he did not call the court’s failure to rule on that issue to its attention.

The court affirmed Formaro’s sentence and the original $50,000 appeal bond, concluding that neither the sentencing decision nor the bond amount was an abuse of discretion. It also held that the district court retained jurisdiction to review appeal-bond conditions after the appeal was filed, but that Formaro could not…