Townsend v. State

OPINION

ROBB, Judge.

Case Summary and Issues

Leonard Townsend, Jr., appeals following a jury trial in which he was convicted of murder, a felony, attempted murder, a Class A felony, and battery, a Class C felony.1 Townsend raises two issues, which we restate as: (1) whether the trial court properly declined to find Townsend’s criminal history to be a mitigating factor; and (2) whether the trial court properly ordered that Townsend’s sentences be served consecutively. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to identify Townsend’s criminal history as a…