State of Iowa v. Jeffrey K. Ragland

WIGGINS, Justice.

A juvenile offender, who the State tried as an adult, brought a postconviction relief action 1 claiming that his conviction for first-degree murder should be overturned and that his séntence is illegal because it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the State and Federal Constitutions. The district court dismissed both claims and the court of appeals affirmed, holding that the offender has made the same claims in the past and that the law of the case doctrine precludes the court from revisiting them. On appeal, we find the law óf the case doctrine precludes the…