Legal Opinion
Ratliff v. Cohn
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided March 27, 1998No. 49S02-9710-CV-529PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
DICKSON, Justice.
On May 8, 1995, the appellant-plaintiff, fourteen-year-old Donna Ratliff, set fire to her family home, killing her mother and sixteen-year-old sister. Charged as an adult, she pled guilty to arson, a class A felony, and two counts of reckless homicide, class C felonies. The trial court ordered her to serve concurrent sentences of twenty-five years for arson and four years for each reckless homicide conviction. Although the trial court recommended placement in an alternative facility, 1 the Indiana Department of Corrections (“DOC”) instead placed her in…
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