# Ward v. State

> Indiana Supreme Court · April 7, 2009 · 903 N.E.2d 946

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9505017

## Case

- **Full name:** Roy Lee WARD, Appellant (Petitioner Below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Respondent Below)
- **Court:** Indiana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 7, 2009
- **Citations:** 903 N.E.2d 946; 2009 Ind. LEXIS 343; 2009 WL 943849
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Shepard
- **Judges:** Boehm, Dickson, Rucker, Shepard, Sullivan
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding no abuse of discretion in admission of multiple "gruesome" photographs of "gaping" wound of victim's abdomen because photographs depicted wound from different angles and were used by pathologist during testimony to describe nature of medical procedures performed and re…

## Opinion text

SHEPARD, C.J.,
concurs, continuing to believe that there is less justification for appellate alteration of sentence than there was when judges (rather than juries) were the final deciders of sentence. See Baer v. State, 866 N.E.2d 752, 766 (Ind.2007) (Shepard, C.J., concurring).

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