Legal Opinion
Ritchie v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided November 8, 2007No. 49S00-0409-PD-420PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUCKER, Justice.
Summary
Benjamin Ritchie was convicted of murder, possession of a handgun by a serious violent felon, auto theft, and resisting law enforcement in connection with the 2000 shooting death of Beech Grove police officer William Toney. The trial court accepted the jury’s recommendation for a sentence of death for the murder conviction and sentenced Ritchie to a total executed term of twenty years for the remaining convictions. On direct appeal, we affirmed Ritchie’s conviction and sentence of death. Thereafter Ritchie filed a petition for post-conviction relief, which the…
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