Sec. 1. This chapter applies when a defendant is charged with a murder for which the state seeks a death sentence under IC 35-50-2-9.
Ind. Code § 35-36-9-1
Applicability
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Allen v. State (1997)
Most recently applied in McManus v. Neal (February 2015)
As added by P.L.158-1994, SEC.3
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.