Hampton v. State

Carolyn Hampton was convicted for the murder and robbery of Joseph Randle, and sentenced to consecutive terms of sixty years for murder and forty-five years for robbery, a Class A felony. In this direct appeal, she challenges the sufficiency of the evidence sustaining her verdicts and argues that her sentence is manifestly unreasonable. She further argues that her convictions for robbery as a Class A felony and murder violate the prohibition against double jeopardy. We find that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Indiana Constitution was violated by her convictions of robbery resulting in…