Opinion ID: 1350712
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Heading: Probation Revocation Proceedings Regarding Mayberry.

Text: In September 1998, the district court in Johnson County sentenced Mayberry to an indeterminate ten-year term on a felony charge of prohibited acts. The court suspended the sentence and placed Mayberry on three years' probation on condition that he reside at a halfway house for a period of time not to exceed one year. On October 14, 1998, a probation violation report and an application for revocation of probation were filed in Johnson County district court. The next day, the district court entered an order setting the probable cause and final hearing before an ALJ. The court did this pursuant to section 907.8A. At the probation revocation hearing on December 16, 1998, Mayberry raised the separation-of-powers issue. The ALJ found that Mayberry had violated two rules of his probation agreement. The ALJ ordered that Mayberry reside in a halfway house and that he have an evaluation for psychiatric treatment and substance abuse. Mayberry appealed, and on February 4, 1999, the Board of Parole affirmed the ALJ's findings of fact but remanded the case for an additional hearing. Before the Board rendered its appeal decision, a second report of violation was filed in January 1999. On February 24, 1999, the ALJ held a consolidated hearing on the remand of the first application and the second application to revoke probation. In addressing the remand of the December 1998 decision, the ALJ ordered Mayberry to complete a competency evaluation at the Forensic Unit at the Iowa Men's Classification Center at Oakdale. At the time of trial on Mayberry's declaratory judgment actionthe case at issue here the ALJ had continued his probation violation case pending the results of the competency evaluation.