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Hackett v. State

Citations

  • 716 N.E.2d 1273
  • 1999 Ind. LEXIS 884
  • 1999 WL 788804

How courts have described this case

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

  • “When a trial court improperly applies an aggravator but other valid aggravating circumstances exist, a sentence enhancement may still be upheld.”
  • “When a trial court improperly applies an aggravator but other valid aggravating circumstances exist, a sen- tence enhancement may still be upheld.”
  • trial court not obligated to find a circumstance to be mitigating merely because it is advanced by defendant
  • court held that two 5 jurors briefly seeing defendant in prison attire did not amount to unfair prejudice

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Judges: Boehm, Shepard, Dickson, Sullivan, Selby

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