Sanchez v. State

OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge

Appellant, Guadalupe A. Sanchez, appeals his convictions for Rape,1 a Class A felony, and Confinement,2 a Class B felony. Specifically, he contends that the trial court instruction, informing the jury that it could not consider evidence of his voluntary intoxication, violates the Due Course of Law provision of the Indiana Constitution. In 1996, the United States Supreme Court held that states could prevent defendants from presenting evidence of voluntary intoxication to show that they did not have the requisite intent to commit the charged offense. Sanchez acknowledges…