Legal Opinion
Roderick Vandrell Lewis v. State of Indiana
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided December 21, 2018No. Court of Appeals Case 18A-PC-767PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Altice, Judge.
*1148 Case Summary
[1] "Judge I'm going to defer to Mr. Lewis if he has any comments. I don't have anything to add." Sentencing Transcript at 23-24. This is the sum total of trial counsel's participation at Lewis's sentencing hearing, at which Lewis was being sentenced for two counts of felony murder and faced a maximum sentence of 130 years in prison. The trial court found no mitigating circumstances - none being asserted by the defense - and sentenced Lewis to the maximum aggregate sentence of 130 years in prison.
[2] On direct appeal, appellate counsel presented only a sufficiency…
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