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                          IN THE                                     Jun 30 2020, 12:56 pm

  Indiana Supreme Court
                                                                          CLERK
                                                                      Indiana Supreme Court
                                                                         Court of Appeals
                                                                           and Tax Court

            Supreme Court Case No. 20S-CR-281

                  Marcus Lee McCain
                  Appellant (Defendant below)

                              –v–

                     State of Indiana
                    Appellee (Plaintiff below)

         Argued: June 11, 2020 | Decided: June 30, 2020

         Appeal from the Lake County Superior Court,
                     No. 45G04-1708-MR-6
            The Honorable Samuel L. Cappas, Judge

   On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals
                        No. 19A-CR-1113

                   Opinion by Justice Massa
Chief Justice Rush and Justices David, Slaughter, and Goff concur.
Massa, Justice.

   Marcus Lee McCain was sentenced to forty-five years in prison for
killing Marcel Harris in a crowded Gary, Indiana fast-food restaurant.
McCain contends that the trial judge—who stated that the jury’s voluntary
manslaughter verdict was “a gift”—impermissibly increased McCain’s
sentence based on his beliefs about the case. We disagree. First, we find
that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in imposing the sentence.
Second, because we determine under Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B) that the
sentence is not inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and
McCain’s character, we uphold the sentence in its entirety.

Facts and Procedural History
   Around midnight, Marcus Lee McCain, his cousin, and his girlfriend
went to Philly Steaks and Fresh Lemonade in Gary, Indiana. McCain lived
in Wisconsin and was visiting family in Indiana. Over a dozen people,
including two young children, were in the restaurant at the time. While
McCain sat awaiting his order, the victim Marcel Harris entered the fast-
food restaurant with a group of friends. McCain testified that he noticed
Harris was “mean-mugging” him. Tr. Vol. 7, p.29.

   When Harris went outside, McCain followed him, even though he had
“never met [him] a day in [his] life,” and the two exchanged words. Tr.
Vol. 6, p.224. Harris returned to the restaurant. McCain then got his
cousin, who was waiting in the car, and went back inside. When McCain
reentered the restaurant, a fight between McCain and Harris ensued that
was recorded in graphic detail by a high-definition surveillance system.
According to McCain, when Harris directed one of his friends to “[s]hoot
that shit,” McCain grabbed a gun from his cousin. Tr. Vol. 7, p.7. Since he
figured “it was [his] life or my life” McCain shoved Harris back and
placed a gun against his head. Id., pp. 7–8. When Harris tried to swat the
gun away, McCain fired a single shot at Harris’s temple at close range,
instantly killing him in the middle of the restaurant. The bullet lodged
itself in the white tile ordering-counter near where two people had been
standing only seconds earlier. Following the shooting, McCain and his

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companions immediately fled the scene, and McCain ultimately returned
to Wisconsin where he was soon identified and arrested after surveillance
camera images were released to the media.

  The State charged McCain with murder and later added an
enhancement for knowingly or intentionally using a firearm in
commission of the offense. 1 While McCain’s counsel argued at trial that he
acted in self-defense, the defense also successfully petitioned the court to
include a jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of voluntary
manslaughter. 2 The jury found McCain guilty of voluntary manslaughter
but not murder. McCain then sought a bench trial on the firearm
enhancement’s applicability to his manslaughter conviction. After a bench
trial, McCain was also convicted of the firearm enhancement. During the
bench trial, the judge made multiple comments indicating he believed the
defendant should have been convicted of murder by the jury. He called it
“the clearest case of . . . cold-blooded murder I’ve seen in high definition
in 32 years” and remarked that “[t]he voluntary manslaughter verdict was
a gift.” Tr. Vol. 7, pp. 186–87.

   At McCain’s sentencing hearing a few months later, the judge made
similar comments, stating that ”[t]he words that the video spoke to me
w[ere] cold blooded and callous” and reiterating “that [it] was the cleanest
cut video I have ever seen of my impression of a murder.” Tr. Vol. 8, pp.
49, 51. However, the court considered numerous aggravating and
mitigating circumstances on the record and in a detailed sentencing order.

   The trial court found ten applicable aggravating factors existed: (1) the
shooting took place in a public environment with fourteen people in close
proximity; (2) there were two children present during the shooting; (3) the
defendant endangered at least one other person who was within the
trajectory of the bullet seconds before the shooting; (4) Harris “was shot at
point-blank range with the gun placed to [his] temple”; (5) the nature of
the shooting was “particularly cold-blooded and callous despite the fact

1See Ind. Code § 35-50-2-3 (murder); I.C. § 35-50-2-11(d) (firearm enhancement).
2See I.C. § 35-42-1-3.

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that [McCain] was convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter wherein heat
of passion was found to be a mitigating circumstance”; (6) McCain has a
criminal history, including two felony convictions; (7) McCain has
previously been incarcerated for thirty days, “which has failed to deter
him from a life of crime”; (8) McCain has seven to eight contacts with the
criminal-justice system, “which reflect adversely on [his] character in that
he is not able to live a law-abiding life”; (9) a Facebook post from McCain
adversely reflects on his character, as it shows that he invites “violence or
conflict”; and (10) McCain is in need of correctional or rehabilitative
treatment that can only be provided by a penal facility. See Appellant’s
App. Vol. 3, pp. 142–43 (emphasis added).

   The court then considered six mitigating factors proposed by McCain’s
counsel and found four to be relevant: (1) McCain expressed remorse; (2)
approximately thirty people submitted letters on McCain’s behalf,
however, the court didn’t give them much weight because some of the
letters described McCain as “peacemaking” but he didn’t use those skills
on the night of the shooting; (3) McCain has a two-year-old child;
however, the court didn’t give this much weight either because of his
limited involvement with the child, as evidenced, in part, by the lack of
any requirement he pay child support; and (4) McCain completed some
courses in jail, which was “somewhat of a mitigating factor.” See id., pp.
143–44; Tr. Vol. 8, pp. 45–47.

After finding that the aggravators outweighed the mitigators, the trial
court sentenced McCain to forty-five years in prison (twenty-seven years
for voluntary manslaughter enhanced by eighteen years for using a
firearm). McCain then appealed his sentence, arguing that (1) the firearm
enhancement was improperly applied to his conviction and (2) the trial
court abused its discretion in sentencing when it considered improper
aggravators.

   The Court of Appeals affirmed McCain’s conviction for the firearm
enhancement but reduced McCain’s sentence to thirty-five years using its
authority to revise a sentence under Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B). See
McCain v. State, 140 N.E.3d 299, 304–05 (Ind. Ct. App. 2020) (“The judge’s
finding that the killing was ‘cold-blooded’ [as an aggravator] is clearly at

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odds with the jury’s finding that the killing was done in sudden heat.”),
vacated. In dissent, however, Judge Tavitas reasoned that the trial judge’s
stated beliefs did not taint the sentencing decision because the “trial court
made it clear that it was following the law and basing the sentence upon
[the listed] aggravators and mitigators.” Id. at 309 (Tavitas, J., dissenting).

  We granted transfer, vacating the Court of Appeals decision. Ind.
Appellate Rule 58(A). 3

Discussion and Decision
   Evaluating the appropriateness of McCain’s sentence, the Court of
Appeals opinion below used its discretionary authority under Indiana
Appellate Rule 7(B) to revise McCain’s sentence because of the trial
judge’s perceived lack of impartiality. See McCain, 140 N.E.3d at 305
(imposing a new sentence of thirty-five years by exercising the Court’s
“authority to review and revise the sentence pursuant to Indiana
Appellate Rule 7(B)” when it believed the trial judge’s sentence
“compensate[d] for what he believed to be an erroneous verdict”), vacated.
We have previously explained, however, that it is under Appellate Rule
7(B) “alone that a criminal defendant may now challenge his or her
sentence where the trial court has entered a sentencing statement that
includes a reasonably detailed recitation of its reasons for imposing a
particular sentence that is supported by the record, and the reasons are
not improper as a matter of law, but has imposed a sentence with which
the defendant takes issue.” Anglemyer v. State, 868 N.E.2d 482, 491 (Ind.
2007) (emphasis added), clarified on reh’g. So, Rule 7(B) is not for correcting
actual error in trial court sentencing.

3 While the Court of Appeals opinion below addressed both the applicability of the statutory
firearm enhancement to McCain’s crime as well as the appropriateness of his sentencing,
today we address only the sentencing issue. “Part I,” then, of the Court of Appeals holding
below—finding the firearm enhancement applicable to McCain’s voluntary manslaughter
conviction—is summarily affirmed under Indiana Appellate Rule 58(A)(2).

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   While abuse-of-discretion review in sentencing generally requires a
remand to the same trial court for correction after an error is found, see
McCann v. State, 749 N.E.2d 1116, 1121 (Ind. 2001) (“[W]e will remand for
resentencing if we cannot say with confidence that the trial court would
have imposed the same sentence if it considered the proper aggravating
and mitigating circumstances.”), our case law has carved out a limited
exception for when a trial court has abused its discretion by exhibiting
bias, instead of simply making a mistake, see, e.g., Phelps v. State, 24 N.E.3d
525, 529 (Ind. Ct. App. 2015) (ordering a two-year sentence reduction
because the trial court “abused its discretion”). Therefore, we must first
analyze McCain’s sentence for abuse of discretion and then conduct a
separate, second review of the sentence’s appropriateness under Indiana
Appellate Rule 7(B).

I. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when
   sentencing McCain.
   We have long held that a trial judge’s sentencing decisions are
reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard. Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d at
490. “An abuse of discretion occurs if the decision is ‘clearly against the
logic and effect of the facts and circumstances before the court, or the
reasonable, probable, and actual deductions to be drawn therefrom.’” Id.
(quoting K.S. v. State, 849 N.E.2d 538, 544 (Ind. 2006)) (cleaned up). When
sentencing, a trial court abuses its discretion if it, among other things,
“considers reasons that ‘are improper as a matter of law.’” Buford v. State,
139 N.E.3d 1074, 1081 (Ind. Ct. App. 2019) (quoting Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d
at 491).

   At issue here is whether the trial court, when imposing its sentence,
relied on a legally “improper aggravator based in its disagreement with
the jury’s verdict.” Appellant’s Br. in Opp. to Trans. at 8. Specifically,
McCain argues the trial judge’s comments—indicating that the
manslaughter verdict was “a gift” and that the evidence presented “the
cleanest cut video I have ever seen of my impression of murder”—are
evidence that the judge improperly imposed his own beliefs during
sentencing. Tr. Vol. 7, p.187; Tr. Vol. 8, p.51. McCain argues that this belief

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was formally manifested in an aggravating factor which referred to the
“cold-blooded and callous [nature of the killing] despite the fact that the
defendant was convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter.” Appellant’s App.
Vol. 3, p.143. Because voluntary manslaughter requires the jury find the
killing was committed in “sudden heat,” see Ind. Code § 35-42-1-3, McCain
contends that this aggravator would always be antithetical to the nature of
the offense.

   Four decisions by this Court from the 1980s explain the still-applicable
framework for addressing questions about a judge’s sentencing
motivations in the context of voluntary manslaughter verdicts. First, in
1982, we found the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing for a
voluntary manslaughter conviction. Gambill v. State, 436 N.E.2d 301, 304–
05 (Ind. 1982). In Gambill, the trial court imposed the maximum sentence
for voluntary manslaughter—stating at sentencing that “I think it was not
the right verdict.” Id. at 304. While the trial judge purported to rely on two
aggravators, we found the judge “merely repeat[ed] . . . conclusory
language” in justifying the sentence “without stating the facts through
which the conclusions were reached.” Id. The dearth of reasoning
supporting the sentence, combined with the trial court’s statements, led us
to conclude it was “clear that the trial court enhanced the sentence to
compensate for what he believed to be an erroneous verdict.” Id. at 305.
Because “any enhancement by [the trial judge after this ruling] would be
suspect,” we justified a rare departure from our “customary” practice of
remanding to the trial court for resentencing and instead ordered the
then-presumptive sentence be used. Id.

  We again reversed a trial judge’s sentencing decision and imposed the
presumptive sentence for voluntary manslaughter in Hammons v. State,
493 N.E.2d 1250, 1253 (Ind. 1986). During the first sentencing hearing, the
trial judge failed to provide facts that “supported enhancement of the
sentences” and expressly stated that his decision imposing an enhanced
sentence was predicated on there being “ample evidence to justify a
finding on the murder count itself.” Id. at 1252, 1251. When the case was
remanded for resentencing, the trial judge again stated his disagreement
with the jury’s verdict, but he also provided a detailed list of aggravating
and mitigating factors supporting his sentencing decision. Id. at 1251.

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Nevertheless, he chose to impose the exact same sentence. Id. at 1253.
Because the resentencing merely attempted to cloak and provide
justification for what the trial court had already decided, “[w]e
conclude[d] that this action is more like the act of compensation for the
jury’s decision apparent in Gambill.” Id.

  Similarly, in 1987, we acknowledged that “[w]hile a trial judge is not
prohibited from expressing his personal disagreement with a jury’s
verdict, a trial judge is prohibited from enhancing a defendant's sentence
based upon his personal disagreement with the verdict.” Hamman v. State,
504 N.E.2d 276, 278 (Ind. 1987). After the sentencing judge in Hamman
made statements on the record indicating that the evidence supported a
murder conviction, not just voluntary manslaughter, we reduced the
defendant’s sentence. Id. at 278–79. In support, we cited three evidentiary
factors: (1) the hostility toward the verdict expressed “by condemning as
totally unsupported” the jury’s finding of sudden heat, (2) the
“improperly introduced” sentencing range for attempted murder at the
hearing, and (3) the failure to provide a detailed docket entry supporting
his conclusions “which would justify an enhanced sentence.” Id.

   But, when a trial court imposed an enhanced sentence for voluntary
manslaughter, we found that the judge’s stated skepticism toward the
jury’s conviction was insufficient to “constitute an invasion of the
province of the jury or render the [five-year] enhancement suspect.”
Wilson v. State, 458 N.E.2d 654, 655–56 (Ind. 1984) (The trial judge stated at
sentencing that the “brillian[t]” performance of defendant’s lawyer, which
convinced the jury to drop a murder charge, did “not change the brutal
nature of this killing.”). We found no clear abuse of discretion because (1)
the judge’s comments were not “so resolutely opposed to the jury verdict
as was the case in Gambill,” (2) at least implicitly, some credit should be
given to the judge’s contemporaneous statement that he would “filter out
those personal feelings from the sentencing,” and (3) the judge’s view was
supported by a reasoned analysis of aggravating and mitigating factors.
Id.

  Altogether, these cases illustrate that examining a judge’s sentencing
decision for impermissible motives is a highly fact specific inquiry.

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Applying the factors explained above, we determine that the judge’s
comments here, though coming very close to the line, are insufficient to
demonstrate that the judge abused his discretion when viewed in the
context of the record as a whole. While the sentencing judge made several
comments on the record that clearly show he personally disagreed with
the verdict, a judge “is not prohibited from expressing his personal
disagreement,” ), Hamman, 504 N.E.2d at 278, though for obvious reasons
we highly discourage that practice. The record contains several other
evidentiary factors that demonstrate the trial judge did not enhance the
sentence based on his disagreement with the jury verdict.

   First, unlike in Gambill, Hammons, and Hamman, the judge’s initial
sentencing decision included a careful, detailed discussion of ten
aggravating factors and six potential mitigating factors (ultimately
accepting only four), both at the hearing and in a detailed sentencing
order. See Gambill, 436 N.E.2d at 305 (listed aggravators contained merely
“conclusory language”); Hammons, 493 N.E.2d at 1251, 1253 (judge’s first
sentencing order failed to provide aggravators); Hamman, 504 N.E.2d at
279 (record did “not disclose specific conclusions” justifying the sentence
enhancement). While not completely dispositive, the judge’s detailed
attempt at showing his work goes a long way in demonstrating that his
personal feelings were not driving the decision.

   Second, like in Wilson, and in contrast to Gambill, Hammons, and
Hamman, McCain did not receive the maximum possible sentence for his
crimes, and the sentence is substantially lower than what he would have
received for murder. Compare Wilson, 458 N.E.2d at 654 (trial court
“add[ed] five years to the basic sentence” for voluntary manslaughter),
with Gambill, 436 N.E.2d at 305 (imposing the then-maximum sentence),
Hammons, 493 N.E.2d at 1251 (same), and Hamman, 504 N.E.2d at 277
(same). With his criminal record, McCain faced an advisory sentence of at
least twenty-two-and-a-half years for his convictions before any of the
aggravating and mitigating circumstances were considered. See I.C. §§ 35-
50-2-4.5 (advisory sentence for voluntary manslaughter is seventeen-and-
a-half years), -11(g) (the court could add at least five years for the firearm
enhancement). While McCain’s counsel took issue with how some of these
aggravators were broken out and weighed in the trial court’s analysis, he

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essentially conceded that all but one of the aggravators had a valid factual
basis, so a heightened sentence should be expected. The forty-five-year
sentence the trial court imposed is five years short of the maximum. See
I.C. §§ 35-50-2-4.5 (maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter is
thirty years), -11(g) (the court could add up to twenty years for the firearm
enhancement). It is also significantly more lenient, given the number of
aggravating factors, than what McCain would have likely received if he
had been convicted of both the firearm enhancement, see I.C. § 35-50-2-
11(g) (between “five years and twenty years”), and murder, see I.C. § 35-
50-2-3 (between forty-five and sixty-five years with an advisory sentence
of fifty-five years). The forty-five-year sentence length does not evince an
improper motive.

   Third, again like in Wilson, the trial judge made statements—both at the
hearing and in the sentencing document—clarifying he would filter out
his personal feelings. See Wilson, 458 N.E.2d at 655. Appellant’s App. Vol.
3, p.144 (“The Court acknowledges that the jury found the defendant
guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter. To be clear, the Court is not assessing
this sentencing as that of a murder case or using the factors of a murder
to elevate the sentence of Voluntary Manslaughter.”) (emphasis added).
While this disclaimer is not a magic phrase inoculating the trial court from
scrutiny, it weighs against a finding of bias. It also distinguishes this case
from cases like Hammons, where the judge based his first sentencing
decision explicitly on “ample evidence . . . justify[ing] a finding on the
murder count itself.” 493 N.E.2d at 1251.

   Finally, we need not decide the validity of the disputed aggravator—
citing the “cold-blooded and callous” nature of the killing—because we
find any error stemming from its inclusion was harmless. Appellant’s
App. Vol. 3, p.143 The thrust of this disputed aggravator is captured, less
controversially, in the preceding aggravating circumstance finding the
heinous nature of the shooting to be significant. See Appellant’s App. Vol.
3, p.142. (“The victim was shot at point-blank range with the gun placed
to the victim’s temple.”). Both these aggravators represent a legitimate
view that the nature and circumstance of this killing differentiates its
heinousness from other heat-of-passion homicides. Our precedent is clear:
“[e]ven when a trial court improperly applies an aggravator, a sentence

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enhancement may be upheld if other valid aggravators exist.” Pickens v.
State, 767 N.E.2d 530, 535 (Ind. 2002) (citation omitted). When an improper
aggravator is used, we remand for resentencing only “if we cannot say
with confidence that the trial court would have imposed the same
sentence if it considered the proper aggravating and mitigating
circumstances.” McCann, 749 N.E.2d at 1121 (citations omitted). Given the
similarity between these two aggravators, remand is unnecessary.

II. Appellate Rule 7(B) relief is denied because a
    forty-five-year sentence is not inappropriate in
    light of the nature of McCain’s offense and his
    character.
   Even after determining that the trial court did not abuse its discretion
in sentencing, McCain is still entitled to independent appellate review of
his sentence under Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B). See, e.g., Hammons, 493
N.E.2d at 1255–56 (conducting an independent appellate sentence
review—under the old manifestly unreasonable standard 4—after first
reviewing the sentence’s lawfulness under an abuse of discretion
standard). The rule provides that “[t]he Court may revise a sentence
authorized by statute if, after due consideration of the trial court’s
decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the
nature of the offense and the character of the offender.” App. R. 7(B). This
“appellate review and revise authority derive[s] from Article 4 of the
Indiana Constitution, [and] includes the power to either reduce or
increase a criminal sentence on appeal.” McCullough v. State, 900 N.E.2d
745, 750 (Ind. 2009).

  “The principal role of appellate review is to attempt to leaven the
outliers.” Cardwell v. State, 895 N.E.2d 1219, 1225 (Ind. 2008). The point is

4At the time, our appellate rules permitted reviewing courts to revise a sentence if it was
“manifestly unreasonable.” The current version of Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B), effective
January 1, 2003, allows us to revise sentences that are “inappropriate.”

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“not to achieve a perceived correct sentence.” Knapp v. State, 9 N.E.3d
1274, 1292 (Ind. 2014) (quotation omitted). “[A]ppellate review and
revision ultimately boils down to the appellate court’s collective sense of
what is appropriate.” Brown v. State, 10 N.E.3d 1, 8 (Ind. 2014) (quotation
omitted). Whether a sentence should be deemed inappropriate “turns on
our sense of the culpability of the defendant, the severity of the crime, the
damage done to others, and myriad other factors that come to light in a
given case.” Cardwell, 895 N.E.2d at 1224.

   We do not find McCain’s forty-five-year sentence to be inappropriate.
The character of the offender weighs heavily in favor of an enhanced
sentence. McCain’s extensive history of felony and misdemeanor
convictions—though non-violent—still weighs against his character, as
does his Facebook post showing a desire for violent conflict. See Frentz v.
State, 875 N.E.2d 453, 473 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007) (noting that repeated
substance abuse misdemeanors, prior to the violent crime at issue,
indicate defendant “had learned very little” and evinced his poor
character). While McCain’s expression of remorse, his letters of support,
his relationship with his young child, and his completion of jail
programing provide some limited rehabilitation of his character, we agree
with the trial court that they do not offset the overall nature of McCain’s
character as demonstrated through his behavior.

   The nature of the offense—a point-blank shooting of a complete
stranger in a crowded fast-food restaurant after getting into an argument
because someone looked at him sideways—weighs heavily in favor of an
enhanced sentence. Especially true when one considers how he
endangered the lives of others present and likely forever scarred young
children who were forced to witness, from only a few feet away, a fatal
gunshot to Harris’s temple. See Hape v. State, 903 N.E.2d 977, 1003 (Ind. Ct.
App. 2009) (citing endangerment of the public during a police chase as a
factor justifying an enhanced sentence under 7(B)); see also I.C. § 35-38-1-
7.1(a)(4) (enumerating “knowingly commit[ing] the offense” in the
presence of a child as a statutory aggravator). Following the shooting,
McCain immediately fled the crime scene and left the state before being
arrested. See McGaha v. State, 926 N.E.2d 1050, 1058 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010)

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(finding on 7(B) review that fleeing after a homicide helps support an
enhanced sentence).

   After considering these and other facts, including four mitigating
circumstances, the trial court imposed a forty-five-year sentence (twenty-
seven years for voluntary manslaughter and eighteen for the firearm
enhancement). The overall length of McCain’s sentence is not an outlier
given the nature of the offense and the character of the offender. See, e.g.,
Eversole v. State, 873 N.E.2d 1111, 1113–14 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007) (upholding
a thirty-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter—without a firearm
enhancement—as appropriate under 7(B) even though defendant, who
killed his wife’s lover with a single gunshot, had no criminal record and
possessed “good character”), trans. denied.

Conclusion
   Because the trial court’s comments disagreeing with the jury’s verdict
were insufficient to taint the sentencing decision, and the sentence was not
inappropriate given the nature of the crime and McCain’s demonstrated
character, we affirm the trial court’s judgement in its entirety, including
the forty-five-year sentence.

Rush, C.J., and David, Slaughter, and Goff, JJ., concur.

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT
Paul G. Stracci
James M. Woods
Stracci Law Group, P.C.
Crown Point, Indiana

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
Curtis T. Hill, Jr.
Attorney General of Indiana

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Stephen R. Creason
Chief Counsel, Appeals Division
Indianapolis, Indiana

Courtney L. Staton
James T. Whitehead
Deputy Attorneys General
Indianapolis, Indiana

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