Beeks v. State

OPINION

DARDEN, Judge

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Phillip Beeks appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. We affirm.

ISSUE

Whether fundamental error occurred when the State used a statement in Beeks’ withdrawn guilty plea agreement to impeach him at trial.

FACTS

In an unpublished memorandum decision, this court found the underlying facts as follows:

On the evening of September 17,1982, four men were playing cards in Marty Catlin’s trailer in Huntington, Indiana. Around midnight that evening, one of the players, Oliver Fields (“Fields”), answered a knock at the trailer door. He opened…