Case Name: Brandon BRUMMETT, Appellant-Defendant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee-Plaintiff
Court: Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 2014-08-20
Citations: 21 N.E.3d 840
Docket Number: No. 49A02-1304-CR-378
Parties: Brandon BRUMMETT, Appellant-Defendant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee-Plaintiff.
Judges: VAIDIK, J., concurs, and BAILEY, J„ concurs in result.
Reporter: North Eastern Reporter 3d
Volume: 21
Pages: 840–840

Head Matter:
Brandon BRUMMETT, Appellant-Defendant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee-Plaintiff.
No. 49A02-1304-CR-378.
Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Aug. 20, 2014.
Ordered Published Dec. 18, 2014.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM DECISION ON REHEARING
BAKER, Judge.
The State seeks rehearing following our opinion, Brummett v. State, 10 N.E.3d 78 (Ind.Ct.App.2014), arguing that this Court failed to apply an appropriately high standard for fundamental error when reversing appellant-defendant Brandon Brummett's convictions for child molesting due to prosecutorial misconduct. The State argues that' this Court should apply the fundamental error standard as recently articulated by our Supreme Court in Ryan v. State, 9 N.E.3d 663 (Ind.2014), handed down June 3, 2014. We issue this opinion on rehearing but re-affirm our original decision in all respects, finding that the prosecutorial misconduct present in this case was much more egregious than that in Ryan and concluding that the prosecutor's misconduct did amount to fundamental error under the standard now to be used. Although we have granted rehearing, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.
VAIDIK, J., concurs, and BAILEY, J" concurs in result.