Engelica E. Castillo v. State of Indiana
Indiana Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
DICKSON, Chief Justice.
Prosecuted for the heinous death of Jada Justice, her two-year-old cousin, Engelica Castillo1 was convicted of one count of Murder, two counts of class A felony Neglect of a Dependent, one count of class A felony Battery, and one count of class A misdemeanor False Informing. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for Murder plus a total of five additional years for the other crimes. On direct appeal, she challenges her sentence of life without parole for Murder, asserting two claims: (1) sentence inappropriateness and (2) prose-cutorial…
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