The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state’s parole board in a juvenile parole case on Friday.
In 2010 the US Supreme Court disallowed sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes in Graham v. Florida. As a result, the Iowa Supreme court decided to resentence Julio Bonilla, who had been sentenced when he was 16 to life without parole for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a pregnant teenager, to life with the possibility of parole in 2011.
