Brandon v. State

MAXWELL, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Carl Ray Brandon’s motion for post-conviction relief (PCR) violated the statutory requirement that a motion may only attack one judgment.1 While multiple judgments require multiple motions, Brandon’s singular motion attacked four convictions in two separate cause numbers following both guilty verdicts and a guilty plea. But because the specially appointed judge found Brandon’s PCR motion lacked merit, we find no harm in the judge’s consideration of the multiple judgments in a single motion.

¶ 2. However, each judgment challenged in Brandon’s motion was subject…