Legal Opinion

VanWanzeele v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided July 30, 2009No. 71A05-0901-CR-26PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

RILEY, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Appellant-Defendant, Elizabeth A. Van-Wanzeele (VanWanzeele), appeals her conviction and sixteen-year sentence for burglary as a Class B felony, Ind.Code § 35-48-2-1.

We affirm.

ISSUES

VanWanzeele presents six issues for our review, which we restate as:(1) Whether the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to instruct the jury on residential entry as a lesser-included offense of burglary;(2) Whether the trial court's instruction on the "breaking" element of burglary improperly emphasized one evidentiary fact, in violation of our supreme court's…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
  2. Childress v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2006
  3. Wright v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1995
  4. People v. CollinsIllinois Supreme Court · 2002
  5. Ludy v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2003

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3Cited by4 opinions

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