Larry Bell v. State of Indiana

MATHIAS, Judge.

[1] Larry Bell (“Bell”) was convicted in Marion Superior Court of Class B felony rape and subsequently admitted to being an habitual offender. The trial court sentenced Bell to an aggregate term of twenty-five years of incarceration. Bell appeals and presents one issue, which we restate as whether the trial court committed reversible error in admitting into evidence a statement made by Bell to a police officer.

[2] We affirm. '

Facts and Procedural History

[3] On February 24, 2012, twenty-five-year-old Bell and his stepbrother, sixteen-year-old Cody Semenick (“Semenick”), threw a…