STATE v. RAGLAND

No. 12-1758.

836 N.W.2d 107 (2013)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Jeffrey K. RAGLAND, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 16, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber , Assistant Attorney General, Matthew D. Wilber , County Attorney, and Margaret J. Popp-Reyes , Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Jon M. Kinnamon of Kinnamon, Kinnamon, Russo, Meyer & Keegan, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.


CADY, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide if the district court erred in resentencing a defendant who was convicted as a juvenile of first-degree murder and mandatorily sentenced to life without parole after he claimed his sentence violated the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and after the Governor of Iowa commuted the sentence to sixty years without parole. We conclude the district...

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