Per Curiam
After remand in Schuler v. State, 112 N.E.3d 180 (Ind. 2018), the trial court entered a revised order sentencing Kevin Andrew Schuler to life imprisonment without parole (“LWOP”) for his conviction for murder and to sixty-five years for felony murder. Schuler appeals the revised order and argues the LWOP sentence must be vacated because the trial court impermissibly relied on non-statutory aggravating circumstances. Finding no error, we affirm.
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Briefly stated, the evidence showed Schuler and Austin Scott broke into the home that Asenath Arnold shared with Gary Henderson, Scott fatally stabbed Henderson, and Schuler intentionally killed Arnold during a burglary of the home. Specifically,
Schuler punched Arnold and she stumbled back to her bed. Schuler then took the singletree [a wooden bar normally used to hold horses together] and struck Arnold on top of her head. Arnold prayed and pleaded with Schuler for her life. According to Scott, Schuler swung the singletree with two hands “like a sledgehammer,” striking Arnold at least twice and as many as four times.
Id. at 184 (quoting St. Ex. 30-4 at 47:53-52:00). Although Scott stabbed Arnold in the face, Schuler would later tell police, “I’m almost positive I killed her.” Id. (quoting Tr. Vol. 2 at 250). Arnold’s head was significantly disfigured in the attack, and an autopsy revealed Arnold died from multiple blunt force injuries and sharp force injuries to the head. Id.
Schuler pled guilty to Count 1, the murder of Arnold, and Count 2, the felony murder of Henderson, and in exchange the State agreed to dismiss its request for the death penalty and instead to request LWOP. The parties agreed the court alone would determine whether to impose LWOP or term of years. Id. at 185. After a hearing, the court orally stated its reasons for sentencing Schuler to LWOP on Count 1 and sixty-five years on Count 2 to be served consecutively. Id.
Schuler raised four issues in his first appeal. We affirmed on the first three issues but on the fourth remanded for a clearer sentencing statement that satisfies Harrison v. State, 644 N.E.2d 1243 (Ind. 1995). On remand, the trial court issued a revised order sentencing Schuler to LWOP on Count 1 and sixty-five years on Count 2. Schuler appeals the revised order.
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Schuler acknowledges the trial court “did properly find and consider the charged statutory aggravator,” Appellant’s Supp. Br. at 5, the intentional killing of Arnold during a burglary. But he argues the court erred by also considering the following as non-statutory aggravating circumstances: (1) the Presentence Investigation Report’s risk assessment, (2) that Schuler’s “participation in this crime was not minor,” (3) that “two innocent victims were killed,” and (4) that “there is no excuse or justification for those killings[.]” Revised Sentencing Order.
The revised order clearly states, “The aggravating factor the Court relies on in sentencing the Defendant is the intentional killing of Asenath Arnold while committing a Burglary.” It adds that “the aggravating factor significantly outweighs the only mitigating factor in this case,” Schuler’s lack of a significant criminal history. The court’s repeated use of “aggravating factor” (singular) indicates it relied on only one aggravating circumstance—the one Schuler acknowledges the court properly considered. And nothing in the revised order shows otherwise.
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The trial court did not find a non-statutory aggravator by noting Schuler’s “participation in this crime was not minor.” That language could explain either how the court weighed the intentional-killing aggravator or why the court was not finding as a mitigating circumstance that “[t]he defendant was an accomplice in a murder committed by another person, and the defendant’s participation was relatively minor.” I.C. § 35-50-2- 9(c)(4); accord Wisehart v. State, 693 N.E.2d 23, 60 n.61 (Ind. 1998) (“[T]he trial court did consider all the mitigation evidence presented by Wisehart, but found none of the circumstances to be mitigating,” where trial court had found, among other things, that “the defendant’s participation was not minor.”), reh’g denied.
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Finally, there is no error in the revised order’s statement that “two innocent victims were killed, and there is no excuse or justification for those killings[.]” Because the court was also imposing a term of years for the felony murder of Henderson, reference to the number of victims was appropriate. See Pittman v. State, 885 N.E.2d 1246, 1259 (Ind. 2008) (“Consecutive sentences reflect the significance of multiple victims.”); Fernbach v. State, 954 N.E.2d 1080, 1089 (Ind. Ct. App. 2011) (same), trans. denied.
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Concluding the revised order does not rely on non-statutory aggravating circumstances to impose LWOP, we affirm.
All Justices concur