State of Indiana v. Matt Stidham

── State of Indiana v. Matt Stidham ── Case No.: 20S-PC-00634 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: November 17, 2020 Author: Justice Christopher Goff County of Origin: Delaware Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed in Part, Remanded in Part Justice Rush and Justice Massa concur. Justice David concurs in result. Justice Slaughter dissents Seventeen-year-old Matthew Stidham and two others committed a brutal murder and several other crimes in 1991. For these crimes committed as a juvenile, Stidham received a total sentence of 138 years— the maximum possible term-of-years sentence. In 1994, a narrow majority of this Court affirmed the appropriateness of the sentence on appeal and declined to exercise the Court’s constitutional authority to review and revise sentences. In this post-conviction proceeding, we find the...