Legal Opinion
Martez Brown v. State of Indiana
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 2, 2014No. 48S02-1406-CR-363PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Petition To Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 48A02-1212-CR-1007
RUCKER, Justice.
Martez Brown appeals his 150-year sentence imposed for two counts of murder and one count of robbery. Exercising our constitutional authority we revise Brown’s sentence.
Facts and Procedural History
Sometime during the late evening hours of Friday, November 26 and the early morning hours of Saturday, November 27, 2010, three teenagers — eighteen-year-old Na-Son Smith, sixteen-year-old Martez Brown, and fifteen-year-old Jacob Fuller— robbed Stephen Streeter and his girlfriend Keya Prince in their…
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