Joseph Fuentes v. State of Indiana

OPINION

MATHIAS, Judge.

Joseph Fuentes (“Fuentes”) was convicted in St. Joseph Superior Court of Class A felony attempted murder, Class C felony possession of a handgun by a felon, Class D felony criminal recklessness, and Class D felony resisting law enforcement, and was sentenced to an aggregate term of forty years. Fuentes appeals and presents three issues for our review, which we restate as:

I. Whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence that the police found an AR-15 rifle in the trunk of Fuentes’s car;

II. Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury to continue to…