Legal Opinion

Delmas Sexton II v. State of Indiana

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided June 11, 2012No. 02A03-1110-CR-465PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

SHEPARD, Senior Judge.

Delmas Sexton II appeals his sixty-five-year sentence for felony murder. Princi*839pally, Sexton contends that the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing him when it found as an aggravating circumstance the fact that as a multiple-conviction felon he was unlawfully possessing the gun he used to kill his victim. This is a question about which there is some disagreement in the reported decisions, but we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On March 24, 2009, Sexton went to Donald McKee’s residence in Allen County, ordered McKee at gunpoint to write him checks,…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Anglemyer v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2007
  2. Anglemyer v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2007
  3. Hammons v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1986
  4. Ryle v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2005
  5. McDonald v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2007

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Curtis A. Bethea v. State of IndianaIndiana Supreme Court · 2013
  2. Nathan Healey v. Robert Carter, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of CorrectionsIndiana Court of Appeals · 2018
  3. Jariel Patterson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)Indiana Court of Appeals · 2016
  4. Martez Brown v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2013

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