Legal Opinion

State of Iowa v. Bradley Steven Graham

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided May 25, 2017No. 15–1464PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

APPEL, Justice.

In this case, Bradley Graham, a juvenile offender convicted of one count of sex abuse in the third. degree, challenges his lifetime special sentence of parole and the lifetime requirement that he register as a sex offender as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution and under article I, section 17 of the Iowa Constitution. The district court held Graham’s lifetime special sentence and lifetime registration requirement were not cruel and unusual punishment because a juvenile offender could petition the Iowa Department of…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Miller v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  2. Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
  3. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  4. Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  5. Weems v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910

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3Cited by29 opinions

  1. State of Iowa v. Bradley Elroy WickesSupreme Court of Iowa · 2018
  2. State of Iowa v. Lloyd AschbrennerSupreme Court of Iowa · 2019
  3. Andreas Benford v. State of IowaCourt of Appeals of Iowa · 2018
  4. Antonio M. Johnson, Applicant-Appellant v. State of IowaCourt of Appeals of Iowa · 2017
  5. Austin Lee Murray v. State of IowaCourt of Appeals of Iowa · 2018

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