Melanie Messer v. State of Indiana

── Melanie Messer v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 22A-PC-02501 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: July 20, 2023 Author: Judge Elaine Brown County of Origin: Hendricks Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Crone and Judge Robb concur In 2016, the State charged Messer with aggravated battery of A.A., who was born in April 2015, as a level 1 felony under cause number 32D05-F1-2. In 2018, Messer pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to aggravated battery as a level 1 felony, which provided that she waived her right to appeal and would be sentenced to thirty years with ten years suspended to probation, ten years served executed in the Indiana Department of Correction (“DOC”), and ten years served in a placement “left open to...