Richardson v. State

SELBY, Judge.

Marcus Richardson (“defendant”) was tried before a jury, together with co-defendants Kiano Austin, Carlos Mitchell, and Claude Nash, for murder 1 and conspiracy to commit murder, 2 both class A felonies. The jury convicted both defendant and Austin for murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and convicted Mitchell and Nash of the lesser included offenses of battery 3 and conspiracy to commit battery, both as class C felonies. The trial court, without objection from the State, subsequently vacated all of the conspiracy convictions and merged those convictions into the convictions…