Wisehart v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

We review and affirm a post-conviction court’s denial of Mark Allen Wisehart’s petition for post-conviction relief.

Background

Petitioner Mark Allen Wisehart appeals the denial of post-conviction relief with respect to his convictions for Murder,1 Robbery,2 Burglary,3 and Theft4 and his sen-fence of death.5 We earlier affirmed Wisehart’s direct appeal of these convictions and sentence. Wisehart v. State, 484 N.E.2d 949 (Ind.1985), cert. denied 476 U.S. 1189, 106 S.Ct. 2929, 91 L.Ed.2d 556 (1986).

The crimes of which Wisehart was convicted involved the beating and stabbing of an…