Supreme Court of Iowa· 5/27/2016

State v. Sweet

Citations

879 N.W.2d 811
2016 WL 3023726
2016 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 64

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holding that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for a juvenile offender violates Article I, Section 17 of the Iowa Constitution
noting that professional psychologists disclaim the ability to accurately predict which juveniles will be incapable of rehabilitation
holding the Iowa Constitution categorically banned the imposition of a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders
holding under article I, section 17 of the Iowa Constitution, juvenile offenders may not be sentenced to life without possibility of parole
concluding the factors are without value and cannot be applied in “any principled way”
identifying the critical fourteen points drawn from the federal case law and the three critical principles distilled from the Iowa case law

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Judges: Appel, Cady, Files, Hecht, Mansfield, Waterman, Wiggins, Zager

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