Court Opinion

ID: 9703492
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:58:45.30554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:49.800619
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BARNES, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur with the result reached by the majority that any Blakely error in this case was harmless. I disagree with the analysis the majority utilizes with regard to whether it is "confident" the error was harmless, citing to Edwards v. State, 822 N.E.2d 1106, 1110 (Ind.Ct.App.2005). I have elsewhere stated my rationale for believing that we must review Blakely error according to the standard of whether such error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. See Davis v. State, 835 N.E.2d 1087 (Ind.Ct.App., 2005) (Barnes, J., concurring in result). I adhere to that belief in this case. Nonetheless, I conclude that any error in this case in relying on Blakely-impermissible aggravators was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt based on Sullivan's admission of having regularly molested his own children. Therefore, I concur in result.