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Carter v. State

Citations

  • 750 N.E.2d 778
  • 2001 Ind. LEXIS 608
  • 2001 WL 807573

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that “[t]here is no particular reason to order a trial court to vacate” a guilty finding on which there is no judgment of conviction
  • explaining that “a jury verdict on which the court did not enter judgment for one reason or another (merger, double jeopardy, etc.) is unproblematic”
  • holding, in the double jeopardy context, a conviction is a court judgment, not a jury verdict
  • noting court should not vacate verdicts underlying lesser-included offenses not reduced to judgment so that those findings remain on the record if conviction of greater offense is ever overturned
  • “a jury verdict on which the court did not enter judgment for one reason or another . . . is unproblematic . . . .”
  • “If a conviction for a greater offense is reversed for reasons specific to the incremental elements between the greater and a lesser included offense, a conviction for the lesser offense may remain valid.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Shepard, Dickson, Sullivan, Boehm, Rucker

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