PETRO v. STATE

No. 685S255.

506 N.E.2d 467 (1987)

Danny Lee PETRO, Appellant (Defendant below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

April 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Belle T. Choate, Choate Visher & Haith, Indianapolis, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Louis E. Ransdell, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


PIVARNIK, Justice.

In this direct appeal, Defendant-Appellant Danny Lee Petro claims solely that the trial court erred in denying his Motion to Dismiss Amended Count II, and subsequently in sentencing him to thirty-five years imprisonment following a retrial of the habitual offender charge. He claims the sentence constitutes punishment for his status as an habitual offender, which violates the prohibition of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution....

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