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DORSEY v. STATE

No. 19-1917.

975 N.W.2d 356 (2022)

James Elvin DORSEY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Iowa, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed June 10, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Smith (argued) of Parrish Kruidenier Gentry Brown Bergmann & Messamer L.L.P., Des Moines, for petitioner.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and Louis S. Sloven (argued), Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

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 opinion.

Petitioner James Dorsey shot and killed a woman when he was eighteen years and five days old. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Dorsey contends this sentence violates his state constitutional right to be free from "cruel...

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