Carter v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Defendant Jeffrey Carter was convicted of attempted murder and a handgun violation following a melee in a “strip club.” We affirm, finding among other things that medical records obtained after trial would not have produced a different result; that claims of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument were waived for failure to object; and that what Carter claims were mistakes by counsel were either not mistakes at all or the result of reasonable strategic decisions.

We have jurisdiction over this appeal because the longest single sentence exceeds 50 years. Ind. Const,…