PETERSON v. STATE

No. 45S00-9103-DP-223.

674 N.E.2d 528 (1996)

Christopher D. PETERSON, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

December 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Stanton, Crown Point, for defendant-appellant.

Pamela Carter, Attorney General of Indiana, Arthur Thaddeus Perry, Deputy Attorney General, Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.


DICKSON, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Christopher D. Peterson was convicted of two counts of murder for the intentional killing of two brothers, Ilija (Eli) Balovski (Count I) and George Balovski (Count II), in their tailor shop in Gary, Indiana. The State sought the death sentence on grounds that, in addition to committing the murders of Balovski brothers, the defendant had been convicted [on March 16, 1992] in Porter Superior Court of the December 1990 murders of...

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