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ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT: ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE:

MICHAEL B. TROEMEL   GREGORY F. ZOELLER  
Lafayette, Indiana   Attorney General of Indiana  

   JAMES E. PORTER  
Deputy Attorney General
Indianapolis, Indiana



IN THE
COURT OF APPEALS OF INDIANA




KENNETH RICKS, )
)
Appellant-Defendant, )
)
vs. ) No. 79A02-0909-CR-936
)
STATE OF INDIANA, )
)
Appellee-Plaintiff. )




APPEAL FROM THE TIPPECANOE SUPERIOR COURT
The Honorable Donald C. Johnson, Judge
Cause No. 79D01-0605-FB-27



December 30, 2009

MEMORANDUM DECISION - NOT FOR PUBLICATION

BARNES, Judge
    Case Summary
Kenneth Ricks appeals his convictions and sentence for Class B felony burglary and Class B felony arson.  We affirm.
Issues
Ricks raises two issues, which we restate as:
I. whether the trial court made improper comments at his guilty plea hearing; and

II. whether he was properly sentenced.

Facts
On October 7, 2005, seventeen-year-old Ricks and his friend, Jacob Lewandowski, broke into Calvary Chapel in Lafayette and used a .sawzall. to remove a safe from an office floor.  App. p. 35.  Ricks and Lewandowski put the safe into the trunk of Ricks

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