Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided March 2, 1998No. 20S00-9401-CR-30PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Justice.
Defendant Stephen D. Brown was convicted of Murder 1 on October 5, 1984, following a jury trial. He was sentenced to a prison term of 60 years. This appeal was not filed until almost nine years later. We affirm.
Background
The following facts and procedural history are relevant to the issues in this appeal.
Defendant and the victim were observed leaving an Elkhart speakeasy at 3:00 a.m. one winter morning. Defendant maintained that he and the victim drove to an area outside the city at the victim’s direction. There, he said, a truck came up behind him and when he exited his…
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- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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