Ector v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

DICKSON, Justice.

After appellant-defendant Edward Ector entered a plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter, the trial court imposed an enhanced sentence of twenty years rather than the presumptive ten-year sentence. In a memorandum decision, the Court of Appeals reversed, finding that the trial court erred in basing a sentence enhancement solely upon the "depreciate the seriousness of the crime" aggravator set forth in Ind.Code § 85-388-1-7.1(b)(4).

On September 830, 1991, the defendant, then enrolled at Indianapolis Arlington High School, fatally stabbed fellow-student…