Grimm v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant Leonard Grimm was found guilty of murder, a class A felony, L.C. 85-42-1-1(1), and received a fifty-year sentence. He now brings this direct appeal, asserting that his conviction must be reversed because of the erroneous admission of a statement given in violation of his Miranda rights.

Appellant and the victim, Mattie Turner, had a long and frequently stormy girlfriend-boyfriend relationship. In early February of 1986, appellant returned to East Chicago from Ohio and began living with Turner and her fifteen-year-old son, Dexter Lewis. Turner…