Saunders v. State
Indiana Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
VAIDIK, Judge.
Case Summary
Darlene Saunders (“Saunders”) appeals her conviction for aggravated battery for shooting her sister with a gun. Because the State met its burden of disproving Saunders’ mistake of fact defense beyond a reasonable doubt and because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding evidence of one witness’ specific instance of conduct regarding truthfulness and another witness’ convictions that were more than ten years old, we affirm.
Facts and Procedural History
On May 22, 2004, Faith Black, her daughter Denise Saunders (“Denise”), and Denise’s daughter…
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