Jerry E Russell, Sr. v. State of Indiana

Summary

The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Russell’s resentencing order imposing life imprisonment without parole plus seventy-three years. It held that the proceedings were a resentencing within the court’s jurisdiction, Russell failed to establish intellectual disability or sentencing error, and his separate criminal-deviate-conduct sentence did not violate double jeopardy. The court independently reweighed the statutory aggravators and mitigators after finding the resentencing order’s findings insufficiently detailed and concluded that LWOP remained appropriate.