Pickens v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant, Mark Pickens, pled guilty to murder 1 and now appeals his sixty-year sentence, alleging the trial court relied on improper aggravators in enhance-ing the presumptive sentence by five years. We have jurisdiction pursuant to former Indiana Appellate Rule 4(A)(7), 2 as the defendant's appeal was initiated by pracecipe on November 1, 2000, and affirm the sentence.

The defendant argues that only three of the trial court's eight enumerated aggravators listed in the sentencing statement are proper, and if only the three proper aggravators are weighed against the three…