Court Opinion

ID: 9822725
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 09:21:35.140038+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:23:32.351265
License: Public Domain

WATERMAN, Justice
(concurring specially).
I respectfully concur in the result only. To me, the plain language of the statute is dispositive. The legislature limited wrongful imprisonment claims to those who meet the specified requirements for the status of a “wrongfully imprisoned person.” One requirement is that “[t]he individual did not plead guilty to the public offense charged.” Iowa Code § 663A.1(1)(&) (2015). Nick Rhoades in fact did plead guilty. He therefore is ineligible for any recovery of money damages under the unambiguous language of the statute. No further analysis is required.
MANSFIELD, J., joins this special concurrence.