Brian L. Paquette, Appellant (defendant Below) v. State of Indiana, Appellee (plaintiff Below).

Summary

The court held that Indiana's resisting-law-enforcement statute permits only one felony conviction when a defendant commits a single act of resisting that causes multiple deaths while operating a vehicle. The felony provision enhances the underlying resisting offense rather than creating a separate offense for each victim, and the statute contains no express authorization for multiple convictions. The court reversed two of the three resisting convictions and remanded for revised sentencing and entry of convictions under another statute for all applicable victims.