RHODES v. STATE

No. 49S00-9709-CR-476.

698 N.E.2d 304 (1998)

Paul Eddie RHODES, Appellant (Defendant below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

August 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jan B. Berg, Indianapolis, for Appellant.

Jeffrey A. Modisett, Attorney General, Arthur Thaddeus Perry, Deputy Attorney General, Indianapolis, for Appellee.


SULLIVAN, Justice.

Defendant Paul Eddie Rhodes appeals his conviction for murder and sentence of life imprisonment without parole. We affirm the conviction. Because we find that the trial court sentenced defendant under a statute not in effect at the time of the crime, we vacate defendant's sentence of life imprisonment without parole and resentence defendant to a term of sixty years.

Background

On May 8, 1994, defendant repeatedly stabbed...

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