ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
Susan K. Carpenter Jeffrey A. Modisett
Public Defender of Indiana Attorney General of Indiana
David P. Freund Priscilla J. Fossum
Deputy Public Defender Deputy Attorney General
Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana
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LEONARD EMERY, )
Defendant-Appellant, )
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v. ) 76S04-9910-CR-509
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STATE OF INDIANA, )
Plaintiff-Appellee. )
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The defendant was convicted of attempted rape while armed with a deadly
weaponSee footnote
1
and sexual battery while armed with a deadly weapon.See footnote
2
The Court of Appeals
affirmed. Emery v. State, 696 N.E.2d 872 (Ind. Ct. App. 1998). On transfer, he contends
that his convictions violate the statutory provision prohibiting a judgment and sentence
for both an offense and an included offense. We grant transfer to address this issue but
otherwise summarily affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals. Ind. Appellate Rule
11(B)(3).
The defendant's claim is based on the following statutory provision:See footnote
3
Whenever:
(1) a defendant is charged with an offense and an included offense in
separate counts; and
(2) the defendant is found guilty of both counts;
judgment and sentence may not be entered against the defendant for the included
offense.
Ind. Code § 35-38-1-6 (1988). He argues that the statutory definition for included
offense renders the offense of sexual battery while armed with a deadly weapon a lesser-
included offense of attempted rape while armed with a deadly weapon:
Included offense means an offense that:
(1) is established by proof of the same material elements or less than all the
material elements required to establish the commission of the offense
charged;
(2) consists of an attempt to commit the offense charged or an offense
otherwise included therein; or
(3) differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less serious
harm or risk of harm to the same person, property, or public interest,
or a lesser kind of culpability, is required to establish its
commission.
Ind. Code § 35-41-1-16 (1988).
The Court of Appeals declined to address the defendant's statutory argument,
believing the statute was an embodiment of the federal constitutional protection against
double jeopardy and treating the issue strictly as a federal double jeopardy claim. Emery,
696 N.E.2d at 876 n.2. To the contrary, the statutory language operates independently
from double jeopardy jurisprudence under the federal constitution. To the extent that
these and related statutes may originally have been intended to implement such federal
double jeopardy principles, we cannot now disregard the express statutory provisions
simply because of changes in federal constitutional jurisprudence.
Construing and applying the plain language of the statutes, we observe that the
offense of attempted rape while armed with a deadly weapon is established by proof that
a person (1) knowingly or intentionally (2) took a substantial step towards (3) having
intercourse with a person of the opposite sex (4) while armed with a deadly weapon (5)
when the other person is compelled by force or threat of force, unaware that intercourse
is occurring, or mentally unable to consent. Ind. Code §§ 35-42-4-1 & 35-41-5-1 (1988).
The offense of sexual battery while armed with a deadly weapon is established by proof
that a person (1) touched another person (2) with the intent to arouse his own sexual
desires or the sexual desires of another person (3) while armed with a deadly weapon (4)
when the other person is compelled to submit by force or threat of force or is mentally
unable to give consent. Ind. Code § 35-42-4-8 (1988).
Turning first to subsection (1) of the statutory provision defining included
offense, we must determine whether the proof of attempted rape while armed necessarily
establishes the elements of sexual battery while armed. Both offenses contain the same
elements regarding compulsion without consent and commission while armed. But proof
of the remaining elements of attempted rape_knowingly or intentionally taking a
substantial step toward having intercourse_does not necessarily establish the remaining
elements of sexual battery_a touching with intent to arouse. Thus subsection (1)
defining included offense is not applicable.
The inapplicability of subsection (2) to this case requires no discussion, but
subsection (3) provides an alternative definition of included offense. Citing Griffin v.
State, 583 N.E.2d 191 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991), the defendant asserts that the Court of
Appeals has previously considered whether sexual battery is an included offense of
attempted rape. In applying subsection (3) to vacate a conviction for sexual battery while
leaving stand a conviction for attempted rape, the Griffin court misunderstood Bowling v.
State, 560 N.E.2d 658, 660 (Ind. 1990), to implement the legislative intent that a
defendant shall not be convicted and punished for an offense that constitutes a less
serious harm to the victim. 583 N.E.2d at 196. However, our opinion in Bowling was
based only upon our then-prevailing understanding of federal double jeopardy
jurisprudence, and did not construe or apply the statutory provision prohibiting a separate
conviction for a lesser included offense. Now that we have recognized that our prior
view of such federal jurisprudence was flawed,See footnote
4
it is particularly inappropriate to
perpetuate such a mistaken interpretation in construing the statute. The plain language of
the statute therefore should control.
In applying subsection (3) of the statute to the present case, we consider whether
sexual battery while armed differs from attempted rape while armed only in the respect
that a less serious harm or risk of harm to the same person . . . is required to establish its
commission. Ind. Code § 35-41-1-16(3). While the harm or risk of harm occasioned by
a non-consensual touching with intent to arouse sexual desires may be less serious than
the harm or risk of harm resulting from an attempted rape, this is not the only way in
which the two offenses differ. Attempted rape does not require completion of the act or
any touching of the victim. Sexual battery, however, requires an actual touching to have
occurred. The two offenses thus do not differ only with respect to severity of harm, as
required by subsection (3), and the defendant was not convicted of both an offense and an
included offense.
Transfer is granted. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
SHEPARD, C.J., concurs. SULLIVAN, J., concurs in result, believing that the
included offense statute is not implicated where, as in this case, the facts support
convictions for two separate acts, despite their temporal proximity. Emery v. State, 696
N.E.2d 872 (Ind. Ct. App. 1998). BOEHM, J., concurs in result with separate opinion in
which SELBY, J., concurs.
Susan K. Carpenter
Public Defender of Indiana
David P. Freund
Deputy Public Defender
Indianapolis, Indiana
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
Jeffrey A. Modisett
Attorney General of Indiana
Priscilla J. Fossum
Deputy Attorney General
Indianapolis, Indiana
offense is necessary, describes this relationship between two crimes as an inherently lesser
included offense. I also agree wholeheartedly that the Court of Appeals was incorrect in
concluding that the statute amounts to a delegation to the federal courts to conform our
substantive law to federal constitutional doctrine. Rather, for the reasons set forth in my
concurrence in Richardson v. State, N.E.2d , (Ind. 1999), in my view the statute is a
codification of the law as it was understood in 1975. And, as also elaborated in Richardson,
that law requires reference to more than the statutory elements to determine whether one
offense is a lesser included offense of another.
Although I agree with Justice Dickson's analysis of the statute, in my view a
determination that sexual battery is not inherently a lesser included offense of attempted rape
is not the end of the analysis. Just as in dealing with instructions, to determine whether an
offense is lesser included for purposes of the statute, we need to determine whether one
crime is, to use Wright's terminology, factually a lesser included offense of the other. As
I observed in Richardson, a comparison of the two criminal statutes cannot be the end of the
analysis. If it were, a defendant could not be convicted for the murder victim A on day 1 and
also for murder of victim B on day 2. Although the statutory elements of these two offenses
are the same, we need to look at the facts to see whether we have one or two crimes.
Similarly, the substantial step in the attempted rape may or may not be the touching required
for the sexual battery. Without looking to the facts of the case and the charging instruments,
this cannot be determined.
When we do look at the facts in this case, we see that Emery committed two separate
crimes, albeit in relatively close temporal proximity. He first groped the victim's breast and
then became more violent by pinning her down and pulling her shirt out of her pants, either
of which could clearly have been the substantial step in the attempted rape. These events
comprise two separate crimes, and so I concur in affirming the convictions. But I believe it
is inescapable that a determination of a lesser included offense in some cases requires a
look at the charging instrument, and sometimes also the instructions and the evidence,
depending on how the crime was charged. This is an example of when that is required.
SELBY, J., concurs.
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