State v. Sanders

ROBERTSON, Judge.

The State of Indiana appeals from an order granting Fred C. Sanders' petition for post-conviction relief. Sanders pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for killing a police officer by shooting him in the back with a shotgun. He was sentenced to seven (7) years imprisonment. Sanders convinced the post-conviction court that his guilty plea was not entered knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently because he had not received real notice of the true nature of the crime of involuntary manslaughter and was under the mistaken impression that self-defense was not available as a…