Bivins v. State

ON DIRECT APPEAL

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant, Gerald W. Bivins, was con-viected following jury trial of six erimes committed during a two-day central Indiana crime spree in January of 1991. As a result, he was sentenced to death for the murder of William Harvey Radcliffe and consecutive terms of twenty years for one count of robbery, twenty years for one count of confinement, three years for one count of auto theft, and three years for each of two counts of theft. His direct appeal to this Court presents various issues which we regroup and address as follows: 1) physical restraint at trial;…