Opinion ID: 2022281
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: Because of the improperly admitted affidavit, Stahl requests either an acquittal or a new trial. Under Everroad v. State, 590 N.E.2d 567, 571 (Ind.1992), if all the evidence, even that erroneously admitted, is sufficient to support the jury verdict, double jeopardy does not bar a retrial on the same charge. See also Lockhart v. Nelson, 488 U.S. 33, 34, 109 S.Ct. 285, 287, 102 L.Ed.2d 265 (1988) (a defendant who succeeds in having a conviction set aside because of trial error may be retried for the same offense without violating the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution); Perkins v. State, 542 N.E.2d 549, 551 (Ind.1989). If the evidence is insufficient, we reverse the convictions and the defendant cannot be retried. Vest v. State, 621 N.E.2d 1094, 1096-97 (Ind. 1993). If the jury believed the statements asserted in the affidavit, there was sufficient evidence to convict Stahl. In the affidavit, Johnson said he did not authorize or benefit from the use of his ATM. If believed, this statement definitively establishes that the money was stolen. This, combined with videotape and corresponding bank records positively identifying Stahl as the person who withdrew the funds from Johnson's account, was sufficient evidence to convict. Thus, the evidence, including the erroneously admitted affidavit, was sufficient to support the jury verdict.