Gov. Chet Culver delivered to legislative leaders on Wednesday his first veto, rejecting a bill that would have eliminated the right of Iowans convicted of simple misdemeanors to a specific appeal process.Culver, a Democrat, wrote a lengthy detailed veto message to Senate President Jack Kibbie, a fellow Democrat.
''I have not taken this step - the first veto of my first term as governor of this great state - lightly,'' he wrote.
He said the bill, if signed into law, would erode and diminish a cherished legal right: ''the right to challenge the legal basis for incarcerating citizens.''
He said Senate File 139 would have removed the ability for anyone convicted of a simple misdemeanor to later challenge the conviction using postconviction relief, which was written into law in 1970. More
The ACLU-IA supported this veto.
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