James Elvin Dorsey v. State of Iowa

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 19–1917 Submitted February 22, 2022—Filed June 10, 2022 JAMES ELVIN DORSEY, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF IOWA, Respondent. Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, Robert B. Hanson, Judge. The appellant challenges the constitutionality of his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI GRANTED AND WRIT ANNULLED. McDonald, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, Mansfield, Oxley, and McDermott, JJ., joined. Appel, J., filed a dissenting…