Reid v. State

On Petition To Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 48A04-0605-CR-00280.

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Appellant Aaron Reid, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder after collaborating with a police informant and an undercover officer, argues that his sentence is inappropriate. We revise his sentence from the fifty-year maximum imposed by the trial court to the thirty-year advisory sentence.

Facts and Procedural History

Aaron Reid was incarcerated in the Madison County Jail during January 2006 when he and inmate Jerry Johnson began discussing Reid’s desire to have his wife and mother-in-law…