Matter of Davis v. Marshall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the phrase “convicted of” a public offense as used in chapter 822 is to be viewed in the “strict legal sense”
• concluding “a guilty plea pursuant to a deferred judgment is not a conviction under Iowa’s postconviction relief statute”
• holding a deferred judgment is not a “conviction” under Iowa’s postconviction relief statute
• finding that one avenue to challenge illegal restraint is through habeas corpus
• defining “conviction” in the “general or popular sense” as “the estab lishment of guilt independent of judgment and sentence”
• defining “conviction” in the “general or popular sense” as “the establishment of guilt independent of judgment and sentence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).