State v. Carpenter

CADY, Justice.

This appeal requires us to determine whether a juvenile prosecuted and sentenced as an adult for the crime of robbery in the second degree must serve 85% of the sentence under the minimum sentence provisions of Iowa Code section 902.12 (1999). We conclude the minimum sentence provisions apply and affirm the district court.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

Michael Carpenter was charged with numerous criminal offenses, including two counts of robbery in the second degree, in violation of Iowa Code sections 711.1 and 711.3 (1999). Although Carpenter was seventeen years old at the…