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Sharp v. State, No. 20S04-1509-CR-549, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Sept. 18, 2015).

September 21, 2015 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: R. Rucker, Supreme

Rucker, J.
In a companion case today we remanded to the trial court for further proceedings the sentences imposed on felony murder convictions of two teenage co-defendants—sixteen-year-old Blake Layman and seventeen-year-old Levi Sparks. See Layman v. State, No. 20S04-1509- CR-548, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. 2015). For the same reasons explored in that consolidated appeal we also remand for further proceedings the sentence imposed on a third co-defendant—eighteen-year-old Anthony Sharp.
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… [W]e reversed the felony murder convictions of both Blake Layman and Levi Sparks. Because Anthony Sharp is identically situated we reverse his felony murder conviction as well and remand this cause for further proceedings. For reasons we explained in Layman, Id. at 11-13, on remand the trial court is instructed to enter a verdict of guilty against Sharp for burglary as a class B felony and resentence him accordingly.
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Rush, C.J., and Dickson, David and Massa, JJ., concur.

 

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