Locke v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant James R. Locke was convicted by a jury in the Allen Circuit Court of murder. The trial court subsequently sentenced him to forty years.imprisonment. Appellant now directly appeals and raises the following seven issues:

1. whether the trial court erred by denying Appellant’s motion to suppress his jailhouse statement to Diana Armstrong;

2. alleged denial of Appellant’s speedy trial right;

3. alleged sentencing error;

4. alleged unconstitutionality of Indiana’s preliminary charge statute;

5. whether the trial court erred by overruling Appellant’s objection to a…