Indiana Supreme Court· 1/17/2006

Taylor v. State

Citations

840 N.E.2d 324
2006 Ind. LEXIS 28
2006 WL 93093

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determining that Taylor was entitled to post-conviction relief and remanding for resentencing without limitation upon the trial court’s sentencing authority
noting that an instruction on accomplice liability is proper where there is some evidence that a second party was involved in the crime
concluding a witness’s affidavit stating he lied during trial did not constitute newly discovered evidence because the affidavit would show the witness was merely lying at trial thereby undermining his own credibility
discussing principal and accomplice liability theories and concluding that “the jury did not need to agree unanimously on which theory supported [the defendant’s] murder conviction”
“while jury unanimity is required as to the defendant’s guilt, it is not required as to the theory of the defendant’s culpability”
the failure to satisfy either component will cause an ineffective assistance of counsel claim to fail

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Judges: Sullivan

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