Breaston v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Following unrelated eriminal trials, Byron Breaston received habitual offender enhancements to his sentences. He was ordered to serve these habitual offender enhancements consecutively. - Starks v. State held that it was improper for the trial court to order consecutive habitual offender enhancements at a single criminal trial 523 N.E.2d 7385, 737 (Ind.1988). Smith v. State applied this holding to separate sentencing proceedings. 774 N.E.2d 1021, 1024 (Ind.Ct.App.2002), trams. de-mied. As such, it was incorrect to impose consecutive habitual offender enhancements in the…