After committing crimes of unspeakable horror, a Posey County man will remain incarcerated after Attorney General Todd Rokita’s appeals team argued successfully against the claim that the man’s convictions should be overturned because of supposed ineffective assistance from trial counsel.
In 2014, Ricky House Jr. lured a woman to a trailer he shared with his girlfriend, tied her to a bed, eventually imprisoned her in a cage and repeatedly raped her over a period of 58 days. The woman eventually escaped with the help of House’s girlfriend’s ex-husband.
House was convicted of rape, criminal confinement, kidnapping, battery resulting in bodily injury and pointing a handgun. He was sentenced to 93 years. Following an earlier unsuccessful appeal, House filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective — a claim he took to the Indiana Court of Appeals after failing to persuade a post-conviction court…