Legal Opinion
State of Iowa v. Christopher Ryan Lee Roby
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 16, 2017No. 15–0175PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CADY, Chief Justice,
In this appeal, we must decide if article I, section 17 of the Iowa Constitution categorically prohibits any minimum term of incarceration without the possibility of parole when imposed on an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the offense. If it does not, we must also decide whether the district court erred in resentencing Christopher Roby to a minimum term of incarceration following a hearing in which the court was to consider certain mitigating factors attributable to his youth at the time of the offense. In December of 2004, a jury found Roby guilty of two…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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- Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
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3Cited by113 opinions
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