Randy L. Knapp, Appellant (defendant) v. State of Indiana, Appellee (plaintiff)

Summary

The court affirmed Knapp’s murder conviction and life-without-parole sentence. It held that the crime-scene photographs were adequately authenticated, that the autopsy expert could rely on them, and that neither the discovery violation nor the erroneous penalty-phase instruction required reversal under the applicable standards. The court also held that the evidence established the statutory probation aggravator and that the sentence was neither constitutionally disproportionate nor inappropriate under Indiana’s sentence-review rule.