STATE v. CARPENTER

No. 99-1491.

616 N.W.2d 540 (2000)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Michael Allen CARPENTER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 7, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Rausch of the Rausch Law Firm, Waterloo, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Mary E. Tabor, Assistant Attorney General, Thomas J. Ferguson, County Attorney, and Joel Dalrymple, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered en banc.


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...

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