Court Opinion

ID: 9860406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:21:14.714904+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:21:51.850300
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that inclusion of the word "knowingly" in the culpability portion of the jury instruction concerning the crime of child molesting was error. I further agree that in this case the error was harmless. In the future, however, trial courts throughout this state should draw from this decision a warning against giving the Indiana Pattern Jury Instruction (Criminal) 3.33 or an instruction which closely tracks it.
For the reasons set forth by the majority herein, I also concur in the holding that the trial court did not err in subjecting the defendant to an enhanced six year executed sentence.
I further agree that Louallen is not entitled to reversal upon grounds that his voluntary intoxication could not be considered in its relationship to formulation of the requisite mens rea. I do so, however, because notwithstanding the long established and constitutionally founded principle set forth in Terry v. State, 465 N.E.2d 1085 (Ind.1984), the majority opinion in Sanchez v. State, 749 N.E.2d 509 (Ind.2001) compels that conclusion. But see Id. (Sullivan, J., joined by Rucker, J., concurring).