Overview

• Marion County Judge James Snyder upgraded Elliahs Dorsey’s criminal confinement to a Level 3 felony and imposed a 16-year term to run concurrently with his existing sentence.
• Prosecutors sought the maximum term to run consecutively and said they were disappointed after the judge declined to add prison time.
• Dorsey was previously sentenced in 2024 to 40 years with 25 years to be executed and 15 years of probation, with credit for roughly 1,943 days already served.
• The jury found Dorsey guilty but mentally ill on multiple counts, including reckless homicide in the death of IMPD Officer Breann Leath and attempted murder of Ayesha Brown.
• Leath’s family and police union leaders voiced frustration over the unchanged prison time, while the defense called the outcome appropriate and cited Dorsey’s mental illness.