Legal Opinion
Julio Bonilla Vs. State Of Iowa
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 17, 2010No. 09–0993PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STREIT, Justice.
Julio Bonilla was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree in adult court for an offense committed at the age of sixteen. 1 He was sentenced to mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole pursuant to the Iowa Code. Under the recent United States Supreme Court decision Graham v. Florida, — U.S.-, -, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 2033-34, 176 L.Ed.2d 825, 848-50 (2010), this sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. The clauses of Iowa Code sections 902.1 and 906.5 (2003) that make Bonilla ineligible…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Bousley v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Schriro v. SummerlinSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- State v. BrueggerSupreme Court of Iowa · 2009
- State v. MagheeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1997
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3Cited by44 opinions
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- Chambers v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2013
- State of Iowa v. Anthony Allen HoeckSupreme Court of Iowa · 2014
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