STATE v. LYLE

No. 11-1339.

854 N.W.2d 378 (2014)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Andre Jerome LYLE Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Amended September 30, 2014.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith , State Appellate Defender, David A. Adams (until withdrawal), Vidhya K. Reddy (until withdrawal), and Rachel C. Regenold , Assistant State Appellate Defenders, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Elisabeth S. Reynoldson (until withdrawal), Benjamin M. Parrott (until withdrawal), and Darrel L. Mullins , Assistant Attorneys General, John P. Sarcone , County Attorney, Frank Severino Jr. and Jeffrey K. Noble , Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.


CADY, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, a prison inmate who committed the crime of robbery in the second degree as a juvenile and was prosecuted as an adult challenges the constitutionality of a sentencing statute that required the imposition of a mandatory seven-year minimum sentence of imprisonment. The inmate was in high school at the time of the crime, which involved a brief altercation outside the high school with another student that ended when the inmate took...

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