Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime

From yesterday's decision of the Iowa court of Appeals in Cue v. State, written by Judge Tyler Buller and joined by Judges Julie Schumacher and John Sandy: Cue's … application for postconviction relief … cited New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), to claim that Iowa's…