Derrick Cardosi, Appellant (defendant Below) v. State of Indiana, Appellee (plaintiff Below)

Summary

The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Cardosi's convictions and life-without-parole sentence. It held that substantial evidence supported the auto-theft conviction, the felony-murder challenge was moot after merger, and the alleged jury-admonishment and accomplice-instruction errors did not warrant reversal. It also held that the co-conspirator's text messages were nontestimonial and that consideration of the sentence was not a manifest abuse of discretion.