Robinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court properly attached no mitigating weight to defendant’s minor criminal history consisting of one misdemeanor possession of marijuana conviction and some traffic infractions
• holding that shooting murder victim multiple times, stripping, looting, robbing, and then dumping the body in a lake was proper use of nature and circumstance aggravator
• “The jury was instructed that to convict Robinson it must find that Robinson acted ‘while armed with a deadly weapon.’ Accordingly, enhancement of the [robbery] offense to a B felony was proper.”
• “Robinson argues that the act necessary to prove murder, shooting Harmon with a handgun, was the same as the force proved as an element of the robbery. . . . Robinson’s knowing killing of Harmon—by shooting the handgun—established one element of robbery (force

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Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Krumm v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-08-22· cited 30×
• Townsend v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-02-07· cited 30×
• David J. Harman v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-02-24· cited 29×
• Espinoza v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-27· cited 23×
• Vandergriff v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-08-06· cited 19×
• Book v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-02-25· cited 11×
• Owens v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-12-09· cited 10×
• Frey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-01-31· cited 6×
• Cowherd v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-07-17· cited 4×
• Dominique Hamler v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-05-27
• Robert Stevenson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-26
• Dino Orville French v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-11-26
• Tubo D. Owei v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-02-07
• Kathleen G. Theriot v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-07-23
• Kameron Wesley Martin v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-10-11
• Jordan B. Wadle v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2020-08-18
• Michael T. Schoeff v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2024-08-26
• Brent Thomas Wills v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-10-10
• Jeremiah Shanks v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2026-04-29

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Richardson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-01· cited 824×
• Spivey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-01-29· cited 273×
• Guyton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-07-25· cited 184×
• Lowery v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-10-04· cited 141×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-02-19· cited 138×
• Mitchem v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-05· cited 132×
• Pierce v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-01-29· cited 119×
• Morgan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 115×
• Logan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-05-26· cited 52×
• Shultz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-03-16· cited 44×
• Bunch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-09· cited 42×
• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-25· cited 21×
• Carrico v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-09-20· cited 16×
• Faceson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-11-17· cited 5×