Kuchel v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

Appellant initially was charged in a forty-five count information with multiple offenses stemming from a series of sex-related attacks perpetrated upon three different women during the summer of 1983. A jury trial resulted in his conviction of twenty of the counts alleged; that judgment was reversed by this Court on direct appeal. Kuchel v. State (1986), Ind., 501 N.E.2d 1045.

In 1988 appellant was retried to a jury on those twenty counts and was convicted of seventeen counts as follows: two counts of Criminal Deviate Conduct, a Class A felony; five counts of Battery, a Class C…