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STATE v. LARA

No. 97-600.

580 N.W.2d 783 (1998)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Roger Conrad LARA, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 1, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Carter of Terpstra, Terpstra & Epping, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Mary Tabor, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and D. Raymond Walton, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, LAVORATO, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

ANDREASEN, Justice.

In 1996 the Iowa legislature adopted a mandatory minimum sentence for certain forcible felonies, i.e., murder in the second degree, sexual abuse in the second degree, kidnapping in the second degree, and robbery in the first or second degree. 1996 Iowa Acts ch. 1151, § 3 (codified at Iowa Code § 902.12 (1997)). The legislature provided that an inmate sentenced under section 902.12 is eligible for a reduction of the sentence of...

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