In the Richmond Hill explosion murder case, the evidence was sufficient to support the murder convictions and the statutory aggravator; the trial court properly refused to include the lesser-included jury instruction; and, Indiana’s life without parole statute is constitutional.
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McGuire v. State, No. 09S02-1707-CR-491, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 21, 2017).
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.
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.”
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.