Court Opinion

ID: 9725990
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 12:25:55.01721+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:22.517064
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
I would first note that Counts I and II did not allege separate and distinct crimes. Rather, Count I alleged possession of cocaine as also alleged in Count II, but added that Allen also possessed a handgun at the time, thereby elevating the offense from a Class D felony to a Class C felony. The only viable conviction and that upon which Allen was sentenced was for the elevated Class C felony.
With regard to Issue I(A) concerning our standard of review, I would add a parenthetical note to the majority's correct statement of the standard as applied to the case before us. That parenthetical note is to the effect that if the trial court's review of the magistrate's issuance of a warrant results in suppression of the evidence so seized, the deference to be given by the appellate court review in an interlocutory appeal by the State, may, to a degree, be conflicted. See Breitweiser v. State, 704 N.E.2d 496, 502 (Ind.Ct.App.1999) (Sullivan, J., concurring).