BOISE -- The Idaho Supreme Court will not overturn the murder charge of the Pocatello man convicted of killing his high school classmate in 2006.
Torey Adamcik appealed his conviction based on seven points including his sentences being cruel and unusual because he was a minor at the time of the crimes.
Adamcik and fellow Pocatello High School classmate Brian Draper were both convicted as adults for stabbing Cassie Jo Stoddart to death.
In the ruling Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones said the gravity of the first-degree murder that Adamcik committed supports the severity of his fixed life sentence.
In September, Draper's murder conviction was also upheld, but the Idaho Supreme Court threw out his conviction of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder saying that jurors were given erroneous instructions on that charge.
