Everett Sweet v. State of Indiana

OPINION ON REHEARING

NAJAM, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

The State petitions for rehearing following this court’s December 6, 2013, opinion, in which we affirmed the post-conviction court’s denial of Sweet’s petition for post-conviction relief. While the State prevailed in our original appeal, in its petition for rehearing the State asserts that we mistakenly relied on our Supreme Court’s opinion in Norris v. State, 896 N.E.2d 1149 (Ind.2008), rather than our Supreme Court’s opinion in Helton v. State, 907 N.E.2d 1020 (Ind.2009). The State is correct. Norris involved a petition for…