Sanders v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Ishan Sanders from judgments of conviction and sentences for robbery with a firearm, burglary of a conveyance, and attempted second-degree murder. We affirm the judgments of conviction, but reverse the sentences and remand for resentencing.

First, we agree that the trial court erred in allowing the state to argue, in effect, to the jury, over objection, that one of the criminal perpetrators in this case [Patrick Newton] necessarily implicated the defendant in this crime during a conversation with the police. There was utterly no evidence at trial to support…