Calvin Merida v. State of Indiana

I agree with the majority’s determination that Merida’s sixty-year aggregate sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offenses and his character. I also agree with its determination that the thirty-year advisory sentence on each count is appropriate. Nevertheless, I respectfully disagree with the majority’s de-*409cisión to “run [Merida’s] two thirty-year sentences concurrent to one another, for an aggregate thirty-year term of imprisonment.” Op. at 409. In the words of the Cardwell court, I believe that “additional criminal activity directed to the same victim should not be free…