Court Opinion

ID: 9743429
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:33:21.336532+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:41.274605
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GARRARD, Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the majority, but I believe a few words of amplification may be helpful concerning the double jeopardy issue.
It seems to me that what was almost a distinct branch of double jeopardy analysis was begun by our supreme court in Bevill v. State, 472 N.E.2d 1247 (Ind.1985). There the court determined that double jeopardy considerations precluded using the same in*466juries to convict for attempted murder and to enhance the felony class of a separate crime, burglary. In Flowers v. State, 481 N.E.2d 100 (Ind.1985) the same reasoning was used to preclude elevating the class of separate felonies (burglary, attempted rape and attempted robbery) based upon the injury of a single victim.- See also McDonald v. State, 542 N.E.2d 552 (Ind.1989); Reaves v. State, 586 N.E.2d 847 (Ind.1992) and Campbell v. State, 622 N.E.2d 495 (Ind.1993).
I agree with the majority that federal double jeopardy analysis does not preclude elevating the class of separate felonies because only one person was injured and that this was the view adopted by our supreme court in Games v. State, 684 N.E.2d 466 (Ind.1997) and its progeny. We should, however, expressly note that the Bevill line of eases has been overruled.