Cornelius Hines v. State of Indiana

DICKSON, Justice.

Following a jury trial, the defendant Cornelius Hines was convicted of Criminal Confinement and Battery. He has appealed claiming violations of both Indiana’s constitutional and common law proscriptions against double jeopardy and seeking review of sentence inappropriateness. We find that the defendant’s two convictions do not violate the common law but do run afoul of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Indiana Constitution.

On August 28, 2012, while incarcerated at the Miami Correctional Facility, the defendant suffered a seizure which brought him to the infirmary. Because the…