Trial court must resentence defendant who was sentenced to forty years imprisonment after entering a guilty plea to one count of felony child molesting when the correct statutory sentencing range was twenty to fifty years, not thirty to fifty years.
Criminal
Miller v. State, No. 28S04-1707-CR-468, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 12, 2017).
The correct legal standard to apply in an attempted murder case is whether the defendant had a “specific intent to kill.”
Black v. State, No. 09A04-1610-CR-2312, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 7, 2017).
The same bodily injury inflicted on a victim of a robbery may not be used to enhance the penalty on both a conviction of conspiracy to commit robbery and a conviction of robbery.
Shinnock v. State, No. 18S05-1706-CR-429, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., June 27, 2017).
Independent, circumstantial evidence that was the crime was committee was sufficient for corpus delicti evidence required to have a confession admitted.
Whiteside v. State, No. 02S05-1706-CR-441, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., June 29, 2017).
Juvenile waived into adult court and convicted of Class B felony attempted rape and two counts of Class B felony criminal deviate conduct was properly sentenced to an aggregate sentence of sixty years imprisonment.