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Cooper v. State

Citations

  • 831 N.E.2d 1247
  • 2005 Ind. App. LEXIS 1422
  • 2005 WL 1869256

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  • noting “there is no documentation in the record before us that the lost wages claimed ... were for work absences occasioned by the counseling sessions,” nor was there evidence “to indicate any basis for [the victim’s] stepmother having had to miss work”
  • noting “there is no 12 documentation in the record before us that the lost wages claimed … were for work absences occasioned by the counseling sessions,” nor was there evidence “to indicate any basis for [the victim’s] stepmother having had to miss work”
  • State presented sufficient evidence to disprove Cooper’s claim that she accidentally struck child victim; Cooper was angry and struck the child repeatedly, with force
  • “The trial court’s sentencing authority is only that which is conferred by the legislature.”
  • evidence of victim crying and screaming supported inference of pain from Cooper’s attack
  • only evidence was an unsigned restitution claim form

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Judges: Darden, Mathias, Crone

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