*1 рresent entry time of or arose after foreseeable within a warranty of habitabili- any nor taking possession, ty. does she have giving contention Scandia notice of about reasons, For these affirm we the trial
the defect. court. says her leasehold Johnson contract is SULLIVAN, SELBY, JJ, concur. writing, a governed so we look within if BOEHM, to see it extended her a J., result, document agreeing concurs warranty. There is no mention of a war- with Justice im- DICKSON that the law ranty habitability. writing Because the plies habitability, of a of warranty but con- expressly does show Scandia war- cluding that for remedies breach of the apartment’s habitability, warranty ranted John- are essentially along the (Second) can just son’s assertion mean lines indicated thing: by Restatement 10.2, impliedly § Property recovery per- Scandia Associates warranted and that for habitability injuries sonal apartment. requires showing negli- Johnson’s which, true, gence. pleads no if Johnson facts agreement tend to show that the formed DICKSON, dissents, J., believing that warranty gives Scandia of habitabil- implied an warranty habitability ity. plead Her failure factual basis premises leased residential should be rec- showing actually that Scandia extended ognized aas matter of law. warranty part of the agreement in a failure a valid
results to state claim warranty
that the was breached.13
VII. Conclusion
Indiana’s common law of. con
tract governing the landlord-tenant rela
tionship developed warranty has of hab warranty itability. universally The is not RICHARDSON, Robert II law, imposed by derives from but Defendant-Appellant, agreement between the tenant and the may express implied. landlord and or Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee. STATE of implied warranty existence of an may proven through parties’ evidence No. 67S01-9910-CR-506. dealing performance course of Supreme of Indiana. ordinary practices evidence of in the trade. express, the warranty Where conse Oct. 1999. quential damages injury person to the may remedy. be available as a Where the
warranty however, implied-in-faet, con
sequential damages may not be awarded personal injury par
because is outside the contemplation. complaint
ties’ Johnson’s
does not aver tending facts show that apartment’s
Scandia warranted the habita
bility injury or that her reasonably Moreover, because injury Johnson's claim is ical are not available on claim for implied warranty theory, based on an way implied warranty habitability, breach of requests she could receive the she relief entitling Johnson cannot state a claim her to through consequential damages. would be relief. damages consequential phys- Inasmuch as *5 Ap The Constitution.
peals affirmed the convictions. Richard
(Ind.Ct.App.
39
English
and ratifiers derived from
debate
framers
adopted with no
The
was
provision
principles.
jeopardy
modified to date. The
common law double
not been
and has
“
(1879)
Elder,
con
of constitutional
See State
65 Ind.
284
principle
‘cardinal
(“That
person
put
consid
in jeopardy
are
no
shall be
that words
[is]
struction
”
ordinary
their
sense.’
offence is a
used in
twice for
same
common-
ered as
(Ind.
which,
believe,
929
law
we
principle,
incorpo-
Ajabu
1998)
Tucker v.
(quoting
rated into
constitution
each of
(1941)).
States.”).
614, 670,
Con
compose
which
the United
States
adoption of the
temporaneous with the
understanding
the constitu-
With the
Constitution,
“offense”
defined
against
tional
protection
“transgression of law.”
a “crime” or
of the
understood” and “most
“least
Noah
frequently litigated provisions of the Bill of
THE
An
DICTIONARY OF
WEBSTER,
AMERICAN
(1856). This defini
States,
English
Language
Rights,” Whalen United
however,
“offense,”
explain
does
tion of
684, 699,
L.Ed.2d
S.Ct.
offense,”
which has
meaning
“same
(1980)
J.,
(Rehnquist,
728-29
dissent-
not surprising
term art.
It is
become a
always
accepted
ing),
has
been
“[i]t
that,
decades, commentators and
“[f]or
judicial technique to have resort
to the
of
attempted to define which
judges have
common law in order
ascertain the true
same,
problem con
and the
are
clause,”
fenses
of the double
meaning
of the
to be the focus of much
tinues
History
Jeopar-
Jay
Sigler,
A.
A
Double
scholarly
criticism of
contemporary
dy,
Legal
Am. J.
Hist.
King, Por
Nancy
doctrine.”
J.
(hereinafter
Thus,
History).
un-
Sigler,
Lim
Punishment: Constitutional
tioning
derstanding
Jeopardy
our Double
Clause
Penalties,
its
and Excessive
on Successive
beyond its
requires
go
that we
text. The
101, 129 n.
U.
determining
helpful
common law is
Pa. L.Rev.
understanding
the term “same
framers’
the lack of discussion at
Despite
offense.”.
regarding
1850-51 Convention
Clause,
jeopardy princi-
trace double
Scholars
Indiana’s Double
Greek,9 Roman,10and
to ancient
ples
the intent of the
back
recognized
has
(J.
state,
thing
1 Demosthenes “provision
of a
else
the sort.”
in a former constitution
1962).
interpreted
by
Vince trans.
has
or construed
which
been
thereof,
highest
and thereafter is
court
Digest
pronounced that
of Justinian
incorporated
readopted
into a new or
"[tjhe governor
permit
same
should not
...
later constitution
was intended
person
again
of a crime of
accused
later
and ratifiers of the new or
con
framers
Dig.
acquitted.”
he has been
provision
should have and
Just
stitution
in,
48.2.7, reprinted
Juris Civilis Corpus
interpretation
or con
be accorded the
Paulus,
1973).
(A.
leading
Ro-
Scott trans.
placed upon
it
struction which
jurist,
explaining the
man
duties
readoption.” Id.
highest
prior to
court
its
*8
de-
310-11,
proconsul,
Senate
"[t]he
recorded
Unfortunately, only
41 Cantrall, L. dif- be fundamental.” Charles procedure and practice criminal law of Jeopardy Multiple and Punish- which and contin- Double from that existed ferent An and ment: Historical Constitutional country. in this When Coke to exist ues (1983).17 735, 24 prohibition Analysis, S. L.J. 765 jeopardy double formulated the Tex. Hampshire Although for the same New first prosecutions against seсond (and offense, only) include jeopardy the same num- state to double there did exist protections in constitution to prior as we have its state closely of related offenses ber noted, Constitution,18 the U.S. has the ratification of today. As one commentator 766, arson, every has among rape, id. at almost state now distinguished “the law ‘intimidating protection against of murder, type included some and but between constitution, ‘interfering jeopardy in its state voting’ and any person from ” Simon, Simon, 307-08; Larry History, supra, Sigler, his to vote.’ right 262, Note, at 262. supra, 75 Yale Jeopardy, Twice in L.J. (1965).16 III Henry “At time of
279 developed applied As states and their In only eleven felonies. Coke’s there were respective principles, thirty.” had Id. the number risen time divergent analyses appeared for determin- By n. the time the U.S. Consti- at 279 75. (1) whether the offenses are the same: ing ratified, dif- England had 160 tution was (2) the approach; the behavioral evi- felonies. Id. ferent Id. dentiary approach. at 269-70. The .-Also, approach focuses on the defen- American colonies and states “behavioral early prosecu- conduct rather than on the jeopardy principles dant’s embodied double laws, Eng- ap- evidence. which use this statutory organic unlike tor’s Courts act, transaction, or intent Colony proach adopt In of Massa- an Bay land. omitted). Liberties, This (emphasis of Id. Body test.” chusetts drafted (also referred to as adoption approach of the Massachu- behavioral led to the ap- or conduct Bay fact that the the same transaction same Code of 1648. “The setts rejected early by protection proach) was Colony explicitly reduced double Elder, Supreme beyond Court State expanded a written form and it Indiana (1879).19 Elder guarantee Ind. The common law demonstrates of that two lines Double regarded concept that the noted colonists sig- Rights, commentary A Documentary History This has been accorded 16. Bill of Klein, (1971)). R. regard. nificant See Susan Civil Jeopardy, 82 Iowa Rem Double Forfeiture (1996) (noting this 242 n. tried, L.Rev. subject be liable to be after 18. "No shall commentary article in "remains the seminal acquittal, or offense.” for the same crime area”). proce- In his on criminal treatise pt. art. XVI. Const, N.H. dure, notes, Supreme "The Joshua Dressier saying’ Court’s about the double 'favorite rejection the same 19. This transaction/con jeopardy con- jeopardy clause”—that double recognized test in has been con duct against protections sists three successive sistently See Ford v. since 1879. acquittal, prose- successive after 516, 520-21, Ind. ("If conviction, multiple punish- cution after claiming appellant 'same that the trans "adopted [this] ment —was from law review applied, test test action’ should Understanding article.” Dressier, Joshua law].”) repudiated case expressly [Indiana (1991) (citing Peter Criminal Procedure Elder); Foran v. (citing Westen, Jeopardy: Double The Three Faces of (1924) (noting that the N.E. Appeals Reflecting Government Criminal arguing "that the offenses defendant was Sentences, (1980)). 78 Mich. L.Rev. transaction; charged grew ... out juris quotes applied the test in some [he] twice 42 stated: “No man shall be Section as ‘the transaction dictions ... known same and the sentenced Civil Justice one Crime, offence, repudiated expressly been Trespasse.” test.’ This test has Cant- However, that, rall, state.”). (citing we note supra, n. in this at 764 Massachu- Liberties, prior the Court Body Copie A isolated case setts 1641: employed what seems to New without discussion the Massachusetts Colonie in Liberties of to find double England, reprinted in a behavioral test Schwartz, 1 Bernard *10 42 The English common law case of throughout appeared interpretation
Clause Abbot, 2 King v. & Leach line that state double Vandercomb held nation. One (1796). court Eng. 455 That ex- “a 168 provide more liberal jeopardy clauses “if crimes are plained at the test as follows: the accused.” Id. ... in favor of rule will not that evidence of the one rule was the same so distinct liberal This more 284. other, test, it is as inconsistent with support the prohibited which transaction/conduct reason, repugnant as it is to the rules of out of the arising multiple prosecutions facts, law, far the same they may say they are so although state of “same be a bar acquittal that an shall Id. at 285. Un- offences.” include several for the other.” Id. at interpretation, prosecution to a line of other der the However, American Eng. 168 at 460.20 jeopar- state double evidentiary approach, centuries jurisprudence in the last two more than the com- “mean no dy clauses ar- single, generally accepted provides at 284. After re- no Id. principle.” mon-law test. Rath- ticulation of the same evidence court decisions and viewing er, three the test has assumed other state and federal from decisions test,”21 courts, rejected “required the more formulations: a evidence the Elder test,”22 test, “alleged evidence and an “actu- adopt that it could “not an stating liberal Simon, States,' at supra, al evidence test.”23 269- rule held in some State, case, not, Haynes also v. 249 Ga. any be convicted 270. See accused can (1989) (dis- they 188-90 facts when 288 S.E.2d upon once the same but ” these three tests extensive de- cussing Id. at constitute different offences.... tail). 286-87. (also by discerning approach required In evidentiary referred approach
The test) Constitution, we note that apparent the Indiana first evidence to as the same (12 Pick.) Roby, Mass. for the mur Commonwealth v. 496, two сonvictions violated thereafter, (1832). persons Soon that court because "the ders of two different test, holding convic persons "[a] restricted the killing two or more acquittal upon no v. tion or one indictment is crime....” Clem act constitutes but one (1873). subsequent based its bar to a conviction and sentence Clem 42 Ind. another, Damon, (Vt. required Tyl. upon unless the evidence decision on State 1803), support upon one of them would Supreme Court conviction in which the Vermont " that, ‘wound have been sufficient to warrant a conviction when the defendant had held Commonwealth, Morey affray, upon persons at the the other.” ed in the same time, (1871). 108 Mass. Present federal and with same instant of stroke,’ Clem, ” Morey, (quoting jurisprudence upon at 429 Da is based Ind. offense, stated, mon, 390), single may "A act be an offense Tyl. it was the same had at against ... if each re not be held to an two statutes statute and the defendant could Clem, offense, quires proof an additional fact which the again swer for the same Damon, 390-91). Blockburger v. (citing Tyl. In a other does not....” United at 430 299, 304, 180, 182, States, decision, Court reviewed the Clem later Morey, (quoting applied 76 L.Ed. that it to circum decision and found 434) added). (emphasis single Mass. at was but one act: stances in which there that, Cfem[], person if a as- it is held required evidence test determines 21. The single persons with a and kills two saults shot, based on whether the offenses are the same single an instru- blow of Simon, analysis supra, of the statute. ment, injury to both results from so that 269. act, against it is one offense one indivisible having mur- conviction alleged evidence test "finds offenses dered one will bar a similarity be- the same if there is sufficient other. murder of the allegations tween the of the two indictments.” 577, 581, Hughes Id. apply actual evidence test assesses whether country to 23. The 20.The first court in this on "the evi- approach offenses are the same based was the Vandercomb same evidence at 270. presented dence at the two trials.” Id. Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts
43
1930,25
emerge
until
interpret-
of this Court
after
and because
“[e]arly decisions
...
distinguished
have been accord-
this Court has not
between
ing our Constitution
superseding precedential
jeopardy protections
double
strong
multiple
ed
72,
Day,
v.
value.” Collins
punishment
644 N.E.2d
76
cases and those in subsequent
(Ind.1994).24
seeking
In
inter-
cases.
proper
Our double
Clause,
law
pretation
Jeopardy
appears
of our Double
case
to fall into five different
involving subsequent
subsequent prosecution categories
we draw from cases
—those
conviction;26
following
because
a mistrial or the
prosecutions
defendant;27
multiple punishments
discharge
jury
cases did
claims
State,
(1881);
Jeopardy
24.
did
Halloran v.
The federal Double
Clause
Armentrout v.
214 Ind.
State,
217,
State,
(1879);
(1938);
Burk v.
victed the defendant [of the afternoon sale]; justified the conviction Writing would be indictment. for a unanimous by State, evidence and the Court, reversed, Judge Biddle32 articulat- defendant be twice convicted for the ing the test as follows: if the facts show same [the offence afternoon sale]. offenses, two or more but “the lesser of- Id. fence necessarily is not involved in the State, greater, necessary
In
and when the facts
Greenwood v.
necessarily any have convicted offered.” Id. Without test, particular it that “[t]he con- held evidence prevent will not fairly shows that the for which the offence victions, though “the offenсes were even appellant first [at was convicted trial] at the same time and committed both is the same as described indict- finding act.” Id. at 285. the same ment in the case bar.” Id. See also being prose- was not twice the defendant 55, 61, Foran v. Ind. N.E. offense, not- cuted for (“The charged offenses ed: law, must not same in as would An indictment for the murder of the the instruments which shown unnamed child of Elizabeth Bradburn offenses, but that such of- charged means as an by no indictment fact.”). must be the same in fenses charging employment of certain Beginning Davidson v. means, procure with the intent (1885), however, Court, *14 without Bradburn, miscarriage of Elizabeth al- expressly overruling noting or a precedent though the means were used to same change jurisprudence, in shifted its consid- in both The commit the offence cases. from away eration the available evidence not in the lesser offence is involved statutory to requirements.33 the In his the are not greater; offences committed trial, first the defendant was convicted of the and against person, same bear no carrying weapon. a unlawfully deadly In a other, in fact resemblance to each either subsequent prosecution, he was convicted intent; necessary the support or facts to of threatening during to use a the pistol [miscarriage charge] a conviction on the same transaction. found The Court these convicted, have necessarily would not not jeopardy, convictions did violate double have they nor would even tended to even the though prosecutions grew “two convict, upon charge]. the [murder of, out and were upon, based same concluded, The Id. at 286. Court “We can at Id. 367. The Court transaction.” stat- States, in adopt held some rule ed is charged the test whether the not, case, any that the accused can “are so far crimes distinct evi- upon but the same facts convicted once dence which would one would sustain they when constitute different of- sustain the other.” Id. at 368. The ” .... Id. at fences 286-287. (1) charged unlawfully crimes were carry- defendant in Jenkins The ing deadly weapon, threatening and (1881), Ind. 138 was tried convicted of to pistol. use a The looked to Court battery. assault and He was also tried statutory elements and held that “a mate- and convicted in a second trial for assault rial difference between two [existed] battery, his claim despite of double by offences defined 1984 [drawing section jeopardy. The reversed Court the second or to threatening weapon], use a and those conviction, noting always “[i]t nec- [carrying declared section con- essary jeopar- for one [claims who weapon carrying weapon open- cealed dy] someone], ly to show that the offence for hе injure with intent even was convicted is same as conceding that involved that the pistol used every in the in which the evidence is instance.” Id. at 367. (cid:127) instruments, i.e., charging
33. Defendant Richardson refers
cases after
tions
"the
conjunction
1884 that use the term “facts” in
in which the
are charged.”
manner
offenses
Kokenes,
our
test.
Rather,
with
213 Ind. at
See
statutory
it reviewed the
elements
("
ipation
proved
had been
in the second indictment
there
burglary,
with
charged
convict one
first,
a
could have been
under the
there
party with
connecting the
proof
must
conviction,
way: would
or stated another
act.
the overt
necessary to secure
evidence be
burglary would
Thus,
prosecution
Id.
pending,
as in the for
a conviction
conspiracy
prohibit
Foran, 195
(quoting
Id.
prosecution.”
mer
also
(burglary).
Id. See
felony
commit
530).
60, 144
Similarly, the
at
N.E. at
Ind.
551, 553-54,
548,
State, 241 Ind.
Dunkle v.
what it called “the
Elmore Court defined
657,
(looking to
659-60
173 N.E.2d
of offense’ or ‘same
Blockburger ‘identity
statutory con-
rules of
“well established
test,”
382 N.E.2d at
evidence’
id.
struction,
upon
well as
definition
as
“
lack of differ
‘the difference or
...
conclusion then is
[o]ur
used
the terms
necessary to establish
ence in the evidence
purview
weapon
within
that to draw
compared
crime as
particular
and distinct
§
...
is a
”
the other crime.’
required
establish
aiming
pointing
from that of
offense
(quoting
at 896
Id. at
§
Appеllant
under
452....
weapon
Dunkle,
173 N.E.2d at
for but one
twice convicted
not therefore
658) (citations omitted). From this com
....”)(cid:127)
offense
concluded
parison, the Elmore Court
involving
analysis
in cases
“our method
analysis
under
In
closely paralleled
multiple count offenders
merged with the
Indiana Constitution
employed by federal
methodology
that we
test:34 “Now
federal constitutional
protecting Fifth Amendment
courts for
Double
by the federal
are bound
Id.
guarantees.”
Clause,
necessary than ever that
it is more
El
in line with federal standards.”
Tawney
we be
this Court
(Ind.1982),
introduced a
more
tial elements of another challenged off
From our review of
considerations,
the consti
ense.37 Both of these
text,
tutional
history
and circum
statutory elements test and the actual evi
surrounding
test,
stances
its
adoption,
dence
are components of the double
*17
following
36. These include
jurisprudence
cases: Neal v.
and did not refer to our state
State,
(Ind. 1995);
See,
Having at trial presented ination of the evidence offense, com we comprising elements component of the double integral was an of the two elements pare the essential employed those deci jeopardy analysis must Each offense challenged offenses. immediately following this sions of sepa which is contain at least one element Jeopardy Double adoption of our other offense so and distinct from the rate felony statutory murder. In injury of the offense bodily and the 44. The exact nature of possibility any example, the touch- exact or manner there is no means The ing not essential elements. occurred are statuto could establish the essential evidence rude, type that some State need show charge felony murder with ry elements of the insolent, bodily angry touching some establishing statutory the essential out also supra and ac- injury See note 43 occurred. charge. charged robbery of the elements companying text. one essential robbery does not contain least from the that is and distinct element contrast, Double the Indiana charged felony offense. But a defen murder violated under this essential Clause would be placed dant would not be twice when, example, a defendant elements test for under the Indiana the "same offense” robbery sentenced for both is convicted and if, example, he is Jeopardy Clause Double killing felony of a murder based on the robbery and for both convicted and sentenced See, robbery. e.g., clerk in the course of the felony of the victims and the identities murder 382 N.E.2d Mitchell robbery are different. the murder and the charging identifies If the instrument See, e.g., Reaves v. robbery for both the as the basis counts, (Ind. 1992). proof felony robbery murder and the robbery an essential element would be
53
component,
significantly
this
the
differs
from federal
preserve
jurispru
Clause. We
test,
304,
separate
Blockburger,
as a
consid- dence under
284 U.S. at
evidence
actual
182,
“same
analyzing
where this Court has been relief, however, We have not extended impose multiple punishments upon a de- subject situations where the behavior or fendant who commits two crimes at the harm separate is either from or more ex- very same time against same victim. necessary tensive than that to constitute time, however, At this I am unwilling to Examples the element of the first crime. beyond extend this formulation these situ- being relief denied on this basis include ations. State, Webster v. 628 N.E.2d My analysis own suggests that these (Ind.1994) (affirming attempted rape, crim- situations fall into five categories: inal deviate conduct and confinement con- punishment 1.Conviction victions because confinement extended for crime which is a beyond necessary lesser-included that an ele- establish offense of another crime ivhich the attempted rape has ment of the criminal defendant convictions); been punished. Examples convicted and deviate conduct Purter v. (Ind.1987) (af- State, provided by of this situation are such cases 515 N.E.2d as Bivins v. 642 N.E.2d 945 firming rape and confinement convictions (Ind.1994) (vacating a conviction for theft beyond because the confinement extended 495, 500 Campbell v. 622 N.E.2d an to establish element necessary (Ind.1993) enhance- (reducing a Class C conviction); Edwards v. rape because the battery to a conviction ment (Ind.1985) (affirming injury that was very bodily same serious and confinement convic- rape attempted enhancement was the basis of the Class C extended the confinement because
tions
A enhancement to
also the basis of a Class
an ele-
necessary to establish
beyond
conviction).
burglary
conviction).
rape
attempted
ment of
hand,
vic-
On the other
where
punishment
4. Conviction
or harm
tims are involved or
behavior
the en
a crime where
enhancement of
is the
of the enhancеment
basis
*23
very same
imposed
is
hancement
for
pro-
relief will be
separate,
distinct and
no
as another crime
or harm
behavior
for
State,
N.E.2d
v.
vided. See Woods
has been convicted
(Ind.1997)
defendant
(affirming a Class A
501-02
provid
has
legislature
punished.
robbery
to a
conviction be-
enhancement
classification
punishment
ed that
bodily injury that was
cause the serious
if the
may be enhanced
certain crimes
separate
the basis of the enhancement
crime is
constitutes the
behavior which
and distinct from that which was the basis
addition
specified
State,
certain
accompanied
conviction);
v.
a murder
Jackson
(Ind.1993)
specified
(same);
certain
ad
al behavior or causes
N.E.2d
State,
where a de
In situations
v.
490 N.E.2d
ditional harm.1
Hansford
(Ind.1986)
A
(affirming Class
enhance-
of one crime
been convicted
fendant has
robbery convictions
burglary
ments to
additional
specified
engaging
for
bodily injuries that
because the serious
additional
causing
specified
behavior or
were the bases of the enhancements were
harm,
harm cannot also
or
that behavior
victims).
inflicted on different
separate
of a
be used as an enhancement
crime;
sep
or the
either the enhancement
punishment
5. Conviction
for
examples
Recent
conspiracy
arate crime is vacated.
where the overt act
crime of
State,
conspir-
659 N.E.2d
that constitutes an element
Kingery
include
another
(Ind.1995),
acy charge
very
is the
same act as
and Moore
has been
crime
which the
(Ind.1995),
a
reducing
both
N.E.2d
defendant
punished. Conspiracy
convicted and
re-
robbery
a
convic
A enhancement to
Class
quires
agreement by
peo-
two or more
very
killing
that was
tion because the
a
and an overt act
ple
commit
crime
was also the
the basis of the enhancement
a
agreement.
furtherance of the
While
Today’s de
murder conviction.
basis of a
conspiracy
guilty
defendant can be
of both
State, 717
in McIntire v.
cision
underlying
a crime and the
to commit
(Ind.1999),
category.
into this
also falls
itself,
catego-
what is at
in this
crime
stake
provide
closely
A
related set of cases
ry
assuring
conspiracy
that indeed the
a defendant’s con-
that to the extent that
act
the under-
separate
and distinct
from
for en-
viction for one crime is enhanced
concretely, in situa-
lying crime. Put more
behavior or
gaging
particular
additional
act itself is no more
tions where the overt
harm,
causing
crime,
additional
particular
any time two or
underlying
than the
crime,
also
used as
commit a
at least one
persons
behavior or harm cannot
more
conspiracy and the
guilty
crime. See will be
of both
an enhancement of
deadly weap-
Robbery, a
while armed with a
example, person
commits
committed
1. For
knowingly
intentionally
felony, by
or
bodily injury
any person
Class C
on or results
taking property
person or from
from another
And the crime is
other than
defendant.
using
presence
person by
or
the
threatening
of another
felony
if it results in
enhanced to Class A
any person
use of force on
bodily injury
any person other than
serious
However,
by putting any person
in fear.
§ 35-42-5-1
a defendant.
Ind.Code
felony
a Class B
if it is
crime is enhanced to
underlying
agree-
many
crime—the element of
what for
thought
citizens is
to be a
straightforward
can
inferred from their concerted
person
ment
idea—a
cannot be
act
tried twice for the
join
action and the overt
found
their
same crime.
I
opinion
Justice Boehm’s
commission of the crime.
because I believe
it is the most consistent with what
point
explained
This
Chiesi
jeopardy ought
to be under Article
(Ind.1994).
644 N.E.2d
I, § 14 of the Indiana Constitution.
charged
There the defendant was
Conspiracy
both
to Commit Murder and
BOEHM, Justice, concurring in result.
Murder. While this case turned to some
I agree,
Court,
as do all members of the
adequacy
charging
extent on the
that the test for permitting
convictions
information, the defendant cited Buie v.
two or more
counts
the same trial is as
(Ind.1994),
majority
However,
it.
formulates
I
authority
setting
conspiracy
aside the
today’s
conclude that
may
case
be decided
noted,
conviction. But
“It
we
is evident
without resort
to constitutional doctrine
that in Buie the conspiracy to commit and
because the dual convictions here are
subject
virtually
crime were committed
by statutory
barred
and common law doc-
*24
simultaneously
only
and that the
overt act
trines, irrespective of constitutional consid-
completing
conspiracy
was the murder
erations.
broadly,
More
I believe that
itself....
Buie where the con-
[U]nlike
dual
in
single
convictions
do
case
not
spiracy
killing
single
constituted a
of-
present an Indiana constitutional double
fense,
bar,
appellant
only
case
I,
jeopardy claim at all. Rather Article
entered into a lengthy conspiracy but com-
§ 14
should be invoked
as a bar to
mitted several overt
following
acts
the con-
subsequent prosecutions. Because the
spiracy in
in
participate
carry-
order
majority
pro-
addresses the constitutional
Chiesi,
ing out of the actual murder.”
vision,
I agree
impor-
and because
that the
Guffey
N.E.2d at 106-07.
tant and
scope
unsettled matter of the
of
(Ind.1999),
N.E.2d 103
which we decide
jeopardy protection
double
under
today
into this category.
falls
Indiana Constitution must be resolved
Court,
this
I express my views on that
SELBY, J., concurring in result.
subject.
I
jeopardy?”
What is “double
believe
points
Justice Sullivan
to recent deci-
(1)
that when
question,
peo-
asked this
most
sions
that prohibit
of this Court
convic-
Hoosiers,
ple, and indeed
say
most
would
tion
punishment
for a lesser included
that
it is to be tried twice for the same
of
offense
another crime for which the
likely
just
crime. The answer
would
pun-
defendant has been convicted and
(2)
ished;
simple,
regard
this
without
to notions
punishment
of
conviction and
convictions,
multiple punishment,
act;
dual
two crimes that consist of the same
(3)
meaning of an offense and the like. Dou-
punishment
conviction and
for a crime
principle
ble
is
bedrock
of our
that consists of the same act
an element
as
constitutional law.
Mary-
See Benton v.
of another crime for which the defendant
land,
(4)
23 has
punished;
been convicted and
en-
(1969);
L.Ed.2d 707
Elmore v.
269 hancement of a crime where the enhance-
fenses
(1941)).
Arti-
portion
decisions
The relevant
of our recent
“several
reviewed
in conflict.” El
I,
to be
provides
person
§ 14
that
shall
appear[ed]
“[n]o
cle
532, 533,
State,
269 Ind.
more
for the same
put
be
twice
recently-
As we
N.E.2d
pointed
As Justice Scalia
out
offense.”
no
there is
au
in Games
noted
Revenue
Department
his dissent in
“establishing an
this Court
from
thority
Ranch,
Montana v. Kurth
U.S.
jeopardy protec
independent state
to state criminal
of an
re-
jeopardy”
opinion
course
the federal doc-
announced
year Pearce
claim that his con-
jecting
defendant’s
applied
Fifth Amendment
to
trine that the
asportation
kidnaping
victions
years
Three
later
multiple punishments.
were error because the two were
State,
587,
Ind.
290
259
Thompson
665,
Neal v.
266
366
offenses.
Ind.
(1972),
explicitly
this
N.E.2d
Court
only
“It is
when two
N.E.2d
jeopardy ap-
that double
rejected
claima
proof
require
of the same fact
offenses
punishments, citing both
plied multiple
to
jeopardy
act
that
considerations
I, §
and Art.
14 of
the Fifth Amendment
667,
both.”
at
bar a
Id.
the Indiana Constitution:
at
The Court
not cite
N.E.2d
651.
did
Jeopardy clause is assur
The Double
proposition.
either constitution for this
will not be allowed to
ance that the State
Elmore,
532,
at
269 Ind. at
attempts
make
to convict
repeated
893,
case
with
seems
be the first
to deal
for the same offense. U.S.
accused
solely as
punishments
a constitu-
multiple
CONST,
XIV;
amen. V and
IND.
Elmore, cit-
tional double
issue.
1,
14;
§
Art.
See Benton v.
CONST.
Pearce,
ing
solely
viewed the issue
as
784,
(1969),
Maryland,
395 U.S.
89 S.Ct. Fifth
made no
problem
Amendment
707;
L.Ed.2d
Green United
constitution. Elmore
mention
state
(1957),
States,
S.Ct.
correctly
that
expressly
observed
199; Ar
2 L.Ed.2d
A.L.R.2d
was incorrect insofar as it dеalt
Thompson
State, (1938),
214 Ind.
with the federal constitutional standard.
mentrout v.
question
But Elmore did
address
Appellant has
63
(Ind.1995)
77
provision of the state Brown v.
653 N.E.2d
jeopardy
the double
(unreasonable
seizure);
that
constitution”15 and observed
search or
Collins
holdings
pun
(Ind.1994)
previous
multiple
Court’s
N.E.2d 72
Day,
(equal
,
feder
ishments were
consistent with
immunities);
often
and
privileges
Price
State
they
al
even if
jeopardy
(1993) (free
double
did
speech).
was stand if the conspiracy conviction cannot law tions. Because federal constitutional object is overt act the crime is the Court, refer- binding on this these cases’ single that a element can- agreement, pure to state constitution ence enhance two offenses and that cases, is an These of which Bevill dicta. consequences support act cannot same Pearce for example, cited appropriately multiple Multiple convictions. convictions multiple proposition punishments rule es- in these cases are barred jeopardy protec- implicate federal in Thompson that “before the tablished any cited they But the extent tion. may sen- judgment impose court enter for the authority, example Thompson, for counts, upon giv- the facts multiple tence proposition under Indiana Con- ing various must rise offenses stitution, and con- they inaccurately, so did supportable, separate and independently holding Thompson. trary express to the Ind. at 290 N.E.2d at distinct.” 259 that, although there is Candler, The sum of this 727. See also 266 Ind. on the no case great point, deal of dicta (same); Williams, N.E.2d at 1233 whether from this Court has considered (same); at 642 high- a bar the Indiana Constitution raises Franks v. Amend- than or different from the Fifth
er (convictions and sentences for see, I can in no case ment. And far as as mur- felony premeditated murder and both until Indiana’s under- Games conformed were wherе der error there standing of federal double killing). Although the Elmore decision Dixon, note any potential did the Court disapproved Thompson rule that facts difference. rise must giving to various offenses “independently supportable, separate and
B. Doctrines Non-Constitutional appropriate distinct” standard Punish- Dealing Multiple multiple Fifth punishment Amendment ments challenges, I conclude that it is nonethe- I do not mean to less a viable under Indiana com- suggest doctrine law, demonstrated, finding multiple pun- bars mon as Bevill even if cases the Con- incorrectly incorrectly ishment in their Bevill attributed it to were decided As opinion results. Sullivan’s stitution. Justice (1996); Missouri L.Ed.2d 535 L.Ed.2d
Hunter,
U.S.
S.Ct.
*31
an
through Dixon back to
entrenched
sup-
are
then
law doctrines
common
These
Blockburger analysis. At
legisla-
rule that
and refortified
by the well-settled
ported
a statute has been
assumption
expressed,
after
tive reenactment
the time this
imply
see,
will
that the
was,
the courts
explicit
I
no
construed
there
as far as
can
interpreta-
with the
adopted
“was
statute
that
suggestion
contention or
the state
which said courts
construction
tion and
dif-
provision might
constitutional
have a
McIntyre v.
had enumerated.”
Amendment,
from the Fifth
ferent content
(1908).
168, 164, N.E.
Certainly Thompson
suggests.
as Games
the more recent cases
or not
Whether
of both constitu-
expressed a different view
in
were correct
announcing these rules
event,
even if the
any
tions as of 1972.
part
from
they
that
are derived
claiming
correct,
it
assumption
Commission’s
I, § 14
or Article
federal constitution
does not amount
commitment
Constitution,
can be
there
the Indiana
future
Indiana state law to unknown
feder-
ap-
rules have been
that these
no doubt
Rather, at best
developments.
al doctrinal
Accord-
years.
over the
repeatedly
plied
law
it
that double
recognition
is
in-
legislature
may
we
assume
ingly,
it
understood in 1976 is reflected
as was
interpreted
be
criminal laws to
tended the
statutory provisions.
some or all of these
point
This
these doctrines.
in concert with
However,
noted,
already
at least some
as
light
of the
powerful
particularly
common
rules are derived from
of these
criminal code on the
the 1976
adoption of
and
predated
that
both state
law doctrines
then recent decisions
heels of the
go
extent
constitutions and to some
federal
Thompson and Candler.
consti-
requirements of either
beyond the
statutory prohi-
in Indiana
also have
We
under-
They are nonetheless well
tution.
the Model Penal Code
bitions based on
principles
workable
generally
stood and
(1) conspiracy
for
convictions
prohibit
footing.
require
no constitutional
crime;
attempt
to commit
and
multiple punishments
problem
The
attempt-
crime
attempt
and the
handlеd as a matter of com-
can thus be
(1998).
§
As not-
35-41-5-3
ed.
Ind.Code
statutory
or
construc-
mon law doctrines
II,
statutory prohibi-
we have a
ed
Part
tion,
by explicit
either
direction
guided
for both
against sentencing
person
tion
the cited statutes
legislature,
from the
offense” in the
crime and an “included
rules of
by commonly
cited
provide,
§
same case. Id.
35-38-1-6.
legis-
presumed
statutory construction
were taken
provisions
These
lative intent.
and have coun-
the Model Penal Code
from
but never
terparts
proposed
in the then
Basis
Finding Constitutional
C.
The
adopted Federal Criminal Code.
Ac-
Punishment Doctrines
Multiple
Study
Law
Commission
Indiana Criminal
Little
complishes
con-
that the state and federal
“assumed”
dimension
Finding a constitutional
were coextensive.
provisions
stitutional
Study
under double
cases
multiple punishment
Commission, Indiana
Law
CRIMINAL
pro-
to the
does not add
jeopardy doctrine
Final Draft
Penal Code PROPOSED
provi-
afforded under other
already
tection
(1974).
was made at the
assumption
This
constitutions.
of the state and federal
at-
sions
was under severe
Blockburger
time
it in his
put
tack,18
As Justice Souter
before the federal consti-
long
in Dix-
dissenting opinion
Grady,
concurring
doctrine moved first
tutional
Draft, therefore,
to use the
is careful not
argument
appro-
beyond
that the
18. It seems
years
priate
Blockburger approach
the number of
and to this extent
sentence and
punished
for an offense
which a man shall
existing
changes
Federal law.
rationally
a function of
number
is not
statutory
Working Papers
National Commission
into which his conduct
violations
(1970).
Criminal Laws
Reform of Federal
parsed by
pleader.
may clever
on,
punishing
completed
of dou-
also the
punishment branch
Mbit
multiple
States,
designed
to ensure
transaction.” Albrecht v. United
law
ble
for one of-
er, further constitutional basis need no we enacting making lature from a statute *32 of the Four- than Process Clause the Due sale of step leading up each to the intox- course of the due teenth Amendment unlawful, beverage icating liquor as a our Constitution. law of provision and, so, doing possession it made the by A in excess of that authorized sentence intoxicating and the mainte- liquor of It provisions and more. law these violates place a to persons congre- nance of for post merely an unconstitutional ex is not drinking for the of gate purpose sepa- sentence; imposi- an facto it is increase rate offenses. never at all. tion a authorized penalty Thompson Ind.App. such, resort
As it invalid. Thus plainly is (1929). can imagine 167 N.E. One unnecessary is jeopardy wholly to double finely grad- a calibrated criminal code with penal- to invalidate a sentence outside aggravating uated sentences for each ele- is ties statute. The issue provided produce ment that would in net result the the statute does or does simply whether punishments as multiple same sentence punishment. authorize of crimes under ex- various combinations way, it point isting Assembly another law. has To make the same General wisely to chosen Jeopardy complicate the Double Clause not to matters trivializes does, code, it, with with criminal if equate as federal doctrine such intricate but so, example, our there no legislative jeopar- intent.19 For it did would be bodily bar.20 If all must dy legislature held one serious do to courts have robbery impose higher penalties properly is injury cannot elevate both identi- fy A Odom one combined offense where were battery to Class felonies. out, (Ind.Ct.App.1995). formerly spelled Double Jeopardy N.E.2d 377 However, presents legislative create a check on legislature could Clause no objective Similarly, “AA” that consist of on.” if one “piling new felonies class battery bodily injury by the Double is or to “inflicting ought serious Clause discretion, penalties a with restriction of robbery” prosecutorial the course of equal present sentences for the omnibus restrict that dis- to the sum crime does cretion, if Supreme A felonies. As the viewed as the alternative to the two Class component is under sixty years ago, “[t]here list of crimes current noted prevents law. But the is also nothing legislature in the Constitution which free ascendingly each punishing separately complex create series of Congress from crimes, step each included of those leading to consummation lesser power pro- regime, prosecuto- it has it. Under transaction which above such (1975) (citation omitted). guarantee "[T]he "[D]ouble role constitutional assuring is court does not protection against punishments limited to that the is cumulative by impos- legislative exceed its authorization sentencing designed to ensure that discre- ing punishments of- multiple for the same is tion of courts confined to the limits estab- Ohio, 161, 165, U.S. fense.” Brown Johnson, legislature.” Ohio v. lished (1977). L.Ed.2d "The test S.Ct. 493, 499, U.S. S.Ct. L.Ed.2d Blockburger generally articulated in serves identifying congressional similar function of impose separate intent to sanctions for multi- complex 20. For the view crime is ple arising single course of a offenses component from the of its different collection U.S., 420 U.S. act or transaction.” Iannelli v. crimes, see the Comment cited in footnote 1. 770, 785, n. 43 L.Ed.2d wrong subsequent prose- crime to be rule for select the rial discretion un- smorgasbord from this in order to charged cutions avoid undesired results bounded, multiple give the just as counts multiple punishment on the front. The major today. prosecutor bargaining power has phenomenon occurred in federal leg- Ultimately the decision rests with jurisprudence. As Justice or not prosecu- islature to vest vest wider it in his put concurring White charge discretion to crimes with torial dissenting opinion in Dixon: penalties. remains greater or lesser This statutory To focus on the elements of a view has of the Double true whatever crime makes sense cumulative where Jeopardy Clause. stake, punishment is at there the aim D. Constitutional Provisions Other in- simply legislative to uncover Punishment Deal with Excessive .... ... legisla- tent But adherence un- The conclusion that double very tive will has little to do with the *33 I, § implicated by 14 is der Article not interests important by advanced in trial is multiple punishments the same jeopardy safeguards successive against that, fact the federal by fortified the unlike The prosecutions. purpose central constitution, in- the Indiana Constitution being the to Jeopardy Double Clause restrict the provisions cludes other that protect against multiple prose- vexatious “pile to ability prosecutor of a or a court cutions, go beyond these well interests by finding multiple statutory on” violations prevention of punish- unauthorized I, First, § in action. Article single a ment. requirement penalties a that be imposes of- to the nature of the “proportioned Although (emphasis substantial- citations omit-
fense.” courts defer L.Ed.2d and ted). ly legislative judgment setting to crimes, penalties legisla- for defined problem mixing multiple punish- this not free from under
ture is restraint subsequent high- is ment See, State, provision. e.g., v. Conner by single a act multi- lighted that violates (Ind.1993). Second, appel- N.E.2d 803 or, statute, ple violating single a statutes late courts of state are authorized injures multiple victims. Under current VII, §§ under Article 4 and 6 to “review law, everyone agree seems to that it must sentences, on occasion do and revise” Mils possible charge to a who person judgment punish- so based on that the people with two The term two murders. to the crime ment is excessive relation simply offense” cannot to the “same refer of the the char- or the nature offense and crime, un- statutory same or it would be Appellate the offender. acter of See prosecute per- constitutional 17(B).21 Rule for two murders at differ-
son
committed
Juggle
in Trying
E. The Problem
places.
times and
But
order to
ent
Two Strands
Double
reach the conclusion that we have
crimes, we
look at the facts
different
must
that
from confound-
The mischief
arises
crimes,
only
of the two
and not
the stat-
ing the two branches into one doctrine
hand, if
they
utes
offend. On the other
is
it restricts
solely
actions of the
the “offense”
provision
in the subse-
application
acсused,
impossible
impose
it would be
quent
most
prosecution arena where it is
my
up
murdering
view
two vic-
greater punishment
needed.
we have ended
See,
State,
J.);
State,
(Sullivan,
Gregory
v.
e.g.,
v.
would
firm this.26
law and stat-
the common
by reference to
sum, I
answer to the
In
believe the
Grady “same
with the
utes and remain
here is not
claims raised
constitutional
subsequent prosecutions.
test for
conduct”
name of
noted,
a uniform test in the
Indeed,
adoption
already
Justice Scalia
Dixon,
Rather it is to rec-
consistency.
Ranch,
year after
doctrinal
just one
Kurth
States,
Supreme
of the United States
recently, Hudson v. United
25. Most
issue under the federal
Dixon resolved this
L.Ed.2d 450
S.Ct.
constitution,
now, with a return to
at least for
(1997),
concurring opinion
in a
Justice Souter
Blockburger,
impediment to our
but I see no
Blockburger
permit
as the test for
endorsed
point.
charting its own course on this
state
prosecution under a differ
ting subsequent
proof
facts
requiring
of different
ent statute
genealogy
proceeding.
Id. The
first
from the
of the under-
need to take some stock
26. The
explain
Blockburger may
some of the blur
dealing
subsequent
lying
when
facts
itself,
important
between
ring
differences
prosecutions
of the
Dixon
not-
is illustrated
multiple punish
subsequent prosecutions
Grady.
writing
withstanding
the demise of
Blockburger
convic
itself sustained
majority that overruled
ments.
the five-member
separate counts based on the same
Grady,
emphasized
that the fed-
tions
Justice Scalia
(a
narcotics)
the two stat
inquiry traditionally
because
fo-
act
sale
eral double
Dixon,
(sale
original
drug
of its
Blockburger
outside
utes
test.
cuses on
703-12,
drug
prop
without a
package and sale of
125 L.Ed.2d
U.S.
*36
hand,
required proof
purchaser)
request
addressing
er
from the
the case at
556. But when
Blockburger cited Gavi
beyond
different
and
of
elements.
the statutes
Justice Scalia looked
338,
States, 220 U.S.
31 S.Ct.
finding
jeop-
v. United
eres
the
in
a double
considered
facts
Albrecht,
421,
(1911) and
273
splintered
L.Ed. 489
ardy
approach
55
violation—an
505,
1,
250,
away
71 L.Ed.
for this
agreed
U.S. at
47 S.Ct.
block that
to do
the five-member
697-703,
permitted
subsequent
a
proposition.
Grady.
Gavieres
S.Ct.
See id. at
113
with
J.,
Scalia,
2849,
prosecution
act based
a dif
(opinion
for
same
on
L.Ed.2d 556
of
125
It, however,
J.).
relied on a Mas
ferent statute.
joined by Kennedy,
Chief Justice Rehn-
approval
with
in Carter
separately
point
sachusetts case cited
noted
quist wrote
on this
and
181,
MсClaughry,
(if
U.S.
22 S.Ct.
46
inconsistency)
of
irony
not internal
Gavieres,
at
focusing
analysis: "By
L.Ed. 236
on the
Justice Scalia’s
Carter,
turn,
specif-
Kokenes is
whether
second
II.
Resolution
this Case
pursued, not
may
cution
be
whether
Under
Statutes
may
charged
crimes
be
convictions
and Common Law
proceeding.27
result
complains
I believe
correctly
Richardson
conviction,
of his dual
but not on constitu-
note, I
As a final
do
believe
grounds.
tional
As Justice Sullivan ob-
subsequent
can
ade-
prosecution issue
serves, we have held that “conviction and
quately handled
other constitutional
punishment for a crime that
is a lesser
provisions.
Due Process Clause
included offense of another crime for
sug-
has also
federal constitution
been
which the
has
defendant
been convicted
prosecutions
as a
to
gested
subsequent
bar
punished”
prohibited.28
Amar,
act.
Akhil
for
See
Reed
(Sullivan, J.,
concurring).
We also
Simple,
Double
Law Made
prohibits
have a statute that
conviction for
(1997). Although
Yale L.J. 1807
at some
§
an included
See
offense.
35-
Ind.Code
point repetitive prosecution may run afoul
(1998);
§
also
38-1-6
see
35-41-
Ind.Code
Clause,
of the Due Process
under
least
(1998)
offense”).
(defining
1-16
“included
subsequent
precedent,
prosecu-
current
typically
Because we
do not resort
to
essentially
tions
the same action have
constitutional
where a statutory
resolution
permitted
been
forward
go
without
do, I
one will
would decide this case under
process
mention of due
as Elder
other
Bayh
Sonnenburg,
the statute.
See
cases
in Ashe
More-
cited
demonstrate.
(Ind.1991) (it
duty
N.E.2d
is “the
over,
gives
process
guidance
little
due
upon
of the court not to enter
the consid-
Rather,
enough
enough.
when
invoked
eration of a
questions
constitutional
where
prosecution,
a bar
it
subsequent
as
perceive
ground
court
can
another
seems akin to Justice
famous
Stewart’s
may
its
upon
properly
it
rest
deci-
obscenity:
test for
must know it when
we
sion”) (citing Bureau Motor Vehicles v.
Ohio,
we see it. See Jacobellis v.
U.S.
Scott,
(Ind.1986)).
184, 197,
1676, 12
L.Ed.2d
J.,
(Stewart,
matter,
concurring).
preliminary
Because
As a
we must be
have
specific
provision
inquiry.
we
constitutional
clear about the nature
following
robbery
necessary
27. Elder
deter-
when the
offered
rules to
facts
—and
provisions
subsequent
prosecution
were
mine whether
convict on a second
would nec-
first,
permitted.
essarily
have convicted on
then
judgment
first
to final
will be
1. When the facts
but one of-
constitute
a bar to the second.
fense, though
susceptible
may
it
divi-
3.But
the same facts constitute two
when
larceny
stealing
parts,
sion
into
*37
offenses,
lesser
or more
wherein the
offense
property
several articles of
time,
at
the
greater,
necessarily
in the
is not
involved
belonging
person,
pros-
to the same
a
necessary
and when
to convict on
the facts
part
judgment
stealing
for
a
ecution to final
prosecution
necessarily
not
second
would
subsequent
the
will
to a
of
articles
be a bar
first,
on the
then the first
have convicted
stealing any
part
other
second,
articles,
prosecution will not be a bar to the
by
the
stolen
the same act.
although
both
the offenses were
committed
facts
2. When the
constitute two or more
offenses,
by
at the same time and
the same act.
wherein the lesser offense is nec-
greater
sion that the definition included §
offense under Indiana Code 35-41-1-
16(1) necessarily involves look
charging proof instrument and at trial. that, we do we see that Richardson’s
When robbery battery
convictions for both Code, permitted
are not under the Indiana
irrespective jeop constitutional double
ardy considerations. The dual convictions rule, fall
also under often invoked with statute,
out reference to the that one crime
cannot enhance another and sup both also See,
port e.g., King conviction. (Ind.
ery v. 495-496
1995).
SELBY, J., concurs. GRIFFIN, Defendant-Appellant,
Eddie Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee.
STATE
No. 18S02-9910-CR-505.
Supreme of Indiana. 1, 1999.
Oct.
