(Des Moines, IA) The Iowa Court of Appeals has vacated a 62-year prison sentence in a home invasion case from 2018. Luis Cruz was 16 years old when the crime was committed. He and two others were charged with breaking into an 82-year-old woman’s home in Kelley, Iowa, and beating her so badly she suffered a brain bleed. In its Wednesday decision, the appeals court concluded a Story County District Court abused its discretion when sentencing Cruz. He will be re-sentenced by a different judge.
