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Brown v. State

Citations

  • 770 N.E.2d 275
  • 2002 Ind. LEXIS 505
  • 2002 WL 1308896

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  • holding that defendant charged with being an accomplice to murder was entitled to jury instruction on reckless homicide where there was “a serious evidentiary dispute” about the culpability of the principal actor
  • holding that “conviction of an accomplice requires sufficient proof of the underlying crime”
  • holding on direct appeal that trial court erred in refusing reckless homicide instruction where erroneously excluded evidence indicated that defendant's husband's fatal act of striking child in the head with a large wooden paddle was accidental

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Judges: Shepard, Dickson, Sullivan, Rucker, Boehm

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