STATE v. FULKROD

No. 48S02-0108-CR-375.

753 N.E.2d 630 (2001)

STATE of Indiana, Appellant (Respondent Below), v. Richard E. FULKROD, Appellee (Petitioner Below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

August 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen M. Freeman-Wilson, Attorney General of Indiana, Priscilla J. Fossum, Deputy Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, Attorneys for Appellant.

Patrick R. Ragains, Smith & Ragains, Anderson, IN, Attorney for Appellee.


SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Five years after appellee Richard E. Fulkrod received a forty-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, the trial court reduced that sentence to twenty-five years over the prosecutor's objection. It had no authority to do so. We reverse.

Facts and Procedural History

In 1990, Fulkrod suffered a skull fracture when his head was caught between the bed and tailgate of a dump truck....

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