INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s legal team recently secured a huge victory at the Indiana Court of Appeals, affirming the guilty verdicts and lengthy sentences for a convicted killer and a rapist, ensuring they will remain incarcerated. Rokita is reacting to the Indiana Court of Appeals decisions to affirm the guilty verdict of two men convicted of rape and murder.

The cases were filed in October, but the Appellate Court made its decision Wednesday.

In the first case, Nashawn Stephens was sentenced to 75 years for the 2022 killing of Tychius Derrickson, Stephens and an accomplice lured Derrickson to an apartment in Mishawaka, brutally beat him, and shot him three times. Stephens challenged the conviction, arguing a lack of direct evidence (no eyewitnesses, confessio

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