State v. Mulder

The Supreme Court remanded this case involving the resentencing of Defendant, who was convicted of a murder he committed as a juvenile in 1976, holding that the resentencing failed to meet the standards established in State v. Roby, 897 N.W.2d 127 (Iowa 2017).When Defendant was convicted, he was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment without the possibility of parole. In 2016, when he was fifty-four years old and had been in prison for thirty-seven years, Defendant was resentenced under new procedures and sentencing options not available to him in 1976. After a hearing, the district court sentenced Defendant to life imprisonment with eligibility for parole after forty-two years, which meant eligibility for parole at age fifty-nine. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the district court, holding that the case must be remanded for resentencing in light of Roby, which was decided after the sentencing hearing in district court. View "State v. Mulder" on Justia Law