Legal Opinion
Troy Shaw v. Bill Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 24, 2013No. 12-1628PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Troy Shaw and two other men were arrested and charged by the State of Indiana in an information with aggravated battery after Brett King was beaten to death outside a motel in Fort Wayne. Shaw denied participating in King’s beating, but the other two men, in exchange for prison sentences of under three years, agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and to testify against Shaw. The state then moved to amend the information to elevate the charge against Shaw from aggravated battery to murder. The trial court granted the state’s motion over Shaw’s objection that the…
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