SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
The Court of Appeals correctly held in this prosecution for stalking, Ind.Code § 35-45-10-5(c), that when the State seeks an enhanced penalty based on a prior conviction for stalking, a defendant is entitled to a bifurcated proceeding in which the proof of the prior conviction is submitted to the jury only after it has rendered a guilty verdict on the present offense. Landis v. State,
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