Court Opinion

ID: 9740080
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:27:35.553429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:16.089245
License: Public Domain

KIRSCH, Chief Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I fully concur with the majority's resolution of the issues relating to the sentence on remand and waiver, but I respectfully dissent from its holding that the 105-year sentence imposed by the trial court on remand is appropriate.
Fields' crimes were heinous and deserving of a substantial executed sentence; similarly, his criminal history justifies an enhanced sentence. That said, however, neither Fields' crimes, nor his criminal history, are egregious enough to justify a sentence in excess of one hundred years. Accordingly, I would exercise our responsibility to review and revise criminal sentences under Article VII, Section 6 of the Indiana Constitution, and impose an executed sentence of seventy years.