Legal Opinion
Royce E. Denton v. Jack R. Duckworth
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 8, 1989No. 87-2819PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Royce Denton was convicted by a jury of rape in Marion County (Indiana) Superior Court in 1981. The same jury, in a bifurcated proceeding, also found that Denton was an habitual offender under Ind.Code § 35-50-2-8. 1 As a result, Denton’s fifteen-year sentence was “enhanced” by an additional thirty years. As a separate part of the original indictment, the State of Indiana had alleged in support of the habitual offender charge that Denton had been convicted of four prior unrelated felonies. Denton was, the separate part of the indictment alleged, convicted in 1963 of grand…
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