Court Opinion

ID: 9505400
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 20:04:19.675317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:25.744485
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, Justice,
concurring.
What justifies the multiple enhancements here is the repeated use of the knife by the defendant in committing crimes for which he was convicted. Had the defendant merely been armed with the weapon while committing multiple crimes, and not actually used it (or used it only once), I think it would be improper to impose more than one enhancement. In such a circumstance, the multiple enhancements would be for the “very same behavior” and thus violate the rule against multiple enhancements to which this Court subscribed in Guyton v. State, 771 N.E.2d 1141, 1143 (Ind.2002) (citing Pierce v. State, 761 N.E.2d 826, 830 (Ind.2002), citing in 'turn Richardson v. State, 717 N.E.2d 32, 55 (Ind.1999) (Sullivan, J., concurring); id. at 57 (Boehm, J., concurring in result)).