Edward Lee Jackson v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a habitual offender admission after a murder trial did not provide the same benefits to the State and victims as would a guilty plea to the underlying crime
• noting that an admission to a habitual offender allegation alone does not constitute an acceptance of responsibility for the underlying crime
• noting that a habitual offender admission following a trial does not provide the same benefits to the State and victims as a guilty plea to the underlying crime
• “If a conviction is supported by substantial independent evidence of guilt which satisfies the reviewing court that there is no substantial likelihood the challenged evidence contributed to the conviction, the error is harmless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).