A man convicted of four sexually-violent crimes has lost his appeal which tried to establish new rules for judging just who is a “sexual predator”. Once someone has served their prison sentence, the state’s “sexual predator” law lets officials keep ’em behind bars for counseling if there’s fear they’d commit another sex crime. Kenneth Ewoldt argued prosecutors should have to prove he’d commit another attack within a year of his release, and he argued sexual predators should get re-evaluated every year. The state’s Supreme Court has ruled against those sorts of time requirements, calling treatment for sexual deviants like pedophiles a “very long-term” proposition.
The Iowa Supreme Court has cut the cord on a satellite t-v arrangement in Mason City.
It all started because the local cable t-v company didn’t provide cable to an apartment building. The owner of the City Center apartment building in downtown Mason City put a satellite dish on the roof for residents, then strung a wire to the Kirk Apartment building two blocks away so residents over there could get satellite t-v channels, too. The City of Mason City sued, charging it was an illegal cable t-v franchise. A district court denied the city’s claims, but the Iowa Supreme Court agrees that the apartment building owner with the satellite dish is illegally running a cable t-v franchise. The wire which stretches between the buildings hangs over city streets, and the justices say that violates federal rules.
