INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Appellate Court has vacated one of the convictions in the double murder case of Valparaiso resident Connor Kerner, saying it violated the prohibition against being tried
McGehee had entered into a similar agreement, but it was rejected in August 2020 by then-Judge Roger Bradford, who said he wanted to see a requirement that McGehee register as
INDIANAPOLIS â Valparaiso resident Connor Kerner has asked the state Appellate Court to find that Porter County prosecutors improperly played a recording during trial of the two murders he was convicted of carrying out on Feb. 25, 2019, at his grandparents home near Hebron.
The challenge to that recording and another claiming to capture a confession are part of the 19-year-old s appeal of his conviction and 179-year sentence in the killings of Thomas Grill, of Cedar Lake, and Molley Lanham, of St. John.
Kerner further argues his lengthy sentence is inappropriate for a juvenile and that the state appellate courts have revised at least four such sentences for young people.
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