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O'CONNELL v. State

Citations

  • 742 N.E.2d 943
  • 2001 Ind. LEXIS 193
  • 2001 WL 206013

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  • holding that defendant’s separate shootings over the course of two weeks could be “easily alleged without reference to the details of the others”
  • emphasizing that multiple crimes or victims constitute a valid aggravating circumstance for imposing consecutive sentences
  • remanding for “a new sentencing order” because the original sentencing order did not explain the court’s basis for the sentence
  • “One can imagine an orchestrated prompting of a witness by means of the media.”
  • \One can imagine an orchestrated prompting of a witness by means of the media.\
  • multiple victims or multiple crimes justifies imposing consecutive sentences

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Judges: Boehm, Shepard, Dickson, Sullivan, Rucker

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