Scott Grundy v. State of Indiana

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• holding in the context of the July 2014 amendment that “the law in effect when the crime was committed controls sentencing.”
• holding the habitual offender statute in effect at the time defendant committed the underlying crime resulting in conviction applied to the defendant’s sentence, as opposed to the statute in effect when defendant was adjudicated a habitual offender
• nature of crime involving vicious attack on helpless victim did not support downward revision of sentence
• evidence that for more than six months after the attack victim suffered headaches, numbness, and degraded vision was sufficient to prove protracted impairment
• sentence for battery not inappropriate; Grundy attacked a “defenseless” victim Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 19A-CR-1542 | March 18, 2020 Page 12 of 14 without provocation and had a lengthy criminal history, including prior convictions of battery

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