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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Ind. Decisions - "Ex-Purdue football player's sentence reduced"
Yesterday's Court of Appeals decision in the case orf Kyle Williams v. State of Indiana (ILB entry here, 4th case, is the subject of a story today by Sophia Voravong in the Lafayette Journal Courier. Some quotes:
A former Purdue University football player who randomly attacked two women on campus will have his sentence for those crimes reduced by six years.Kyle D. Williams, 22, was found guilty in April 2007 of attempted rape, a Class B felony; battery, a Class C felony; and criminal confinement, a Class C felony, for one of the assaults, which took place in a parking lot behind Delta Zeta sorority on Nov. 29, 2005.
The Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 jury also found Williams guilty of criminal confinement, a Class D felony, and battery causing serious bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor, for an attack that occurred 90 minutes later on First Street near Waldron Street.
Both victims, who were students at Purdue at the time of the attacks, had been struck repeatedly and suffered head and facial injuries.
But in a unanimous ruling issued Tuesday, the Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed the criminal confinement charge in the first attack on grounds that it violated double jeopardy.
"We reach the conclusion that the record establishes clear evidence to support the jury's conclusion that Williams committed attempted rape ... and battery," Judge Carr Darden wrote in the 16-page ruling.
"However, we find a reasonable probability exists that the same evidentiary facts the jury used to establish his commission of these two offenses were also 'used to establish the essential elements of' the third offense -- criminal confinement."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 23, 2008 10:31 AM
Posted to Ind. App.Ct. Decisions