Rucker, J.
Gary Sistrunk challenges his convictions for robbery and criminal confinement as class B felonies contending, among other things, they violate Indiana’s constitutional ban on double jeopardy. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
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On February 5, 2012, Gary Sistrunk entered a gas station in Marion County and purchased a cigar. As the attendant was returning Sistrunk’s change, Sistrunk produced a handgun, pointed it at the attendant and demanded money from the cash register. The attendant complied. Sistrunk then demanded money from the safe. The attendant responded that she was unable to open the safe. Instead she handed Sistrunk two safety-deposit bags containing cash. Sistrunk then “told [the attendant] to sit on the ground and [she] sat on the ground, he stood there for about a minute and then [] walked out the door,” and she “waited for about [two] minutes to call the police.” [Record citation omitted.]
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Sistrunk waived his right to trial by jury. A bench trial was conducted on October 4, 2012, at the conclusion of which the trial court found Sistrunk guilty as charged. … Sistrunk appealed contending the two convictions violated Indiana’s prohibition on double jeopardy because the force used to support the robbery conviction was coextensive with the force used to support the confinement conviction. …
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… In Richardson v. State, 717 N.E.2d 32 (Ind. 1999), this Court reviewed the history of the Indiana Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause to determine and articulate a single comprehensive rule synthesizing and superseding previous formulations and exceptions. … However, in addition to the protections afforded by the Indiana Double Jeopardy Clause, this Court has “long adhered to a series of rules of statutory construction and common law that are often described as double jeopardy, but are not governed by the constitutional test set forth in Richardson.” Pierce v. State, 761 N.E.2d 826, 830 (Ind. 2002). Among these is the rule that precludes a “[c]onviction and punishment for an enhancement of a crime where the enhancement is imposed for the very same behavior or harm as another crime for which the defendant has been convicted and punished.” Guyton v. State, 771 N.E.2d 1141, 1143 (Ind. 2002) (emphasis added) (quoting Richardson, 717 N.E.2d at 56 (Sullivan, J., concurring)).
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In sum, our jurisprudence teaches that committing two or more separate offenses each while armed with a deadly weapon—even the same weapon—is not within the category of rules precluding the enhancement of each offense based on “the very same behavior.” Stated somewhat differently, our recognition in Richardson of the common law rule establishing that enhancements cannot be imposed for the very same behavior could not have included use of a single deadly weapon during the commission of separate offenses. And this is so because no such common law rule existed. Instead the opposite was true.
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We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Rush, C.J., Dickson, David and Massa, JJ., concur.