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Despite recent changes to the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct meant to aid pro se litigants’ ability to be heard in court, an appellate panel ruled Friday that an inmate’s suit against a judge, a clerk and others was so confusing and repetitive that it was rightly dismissed.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Ryan Baxter v. State of Indiana
18A-CR-2050
Criminal. Affirms Ryan Baxter’s conviction of Level 1 child molesting, finding the Elkhart Superior Court did not err in admitting a medical report, and the victim’s testimony was not incredibly dubious.
A man convicted of Level 1 felony child molesting and sentenced to 48 years in prison failed to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that his victim’s medical report was improperly admitted or that her testimony was incredibly dubious.
In a family friendly competition pitting plaintiffs' attorneys against defense attorneys, two Indianapolis law firms have come together to host a chess tournament to raise funds for civic education. The We the People White Knight Chess Tournament will take place at 2 p.m. Oct. 26, but registration is already open.
The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river shared by the two states coated in hazardous coal ash.
A former college volleyball coach from Indianapolis has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to possessing sexually explicit images and videos of young girls. A Marion County judge recently sentenced Steven Payne to four years of probation and barred him from having internet access at home or work.
Click here for program details. Date: Thursday, September 26 – Friday, September 27, 2019 Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm (each day) Credit hours: 12.0 CLE / 2.0 Ethics / 1 CME Cost: $400 Allen County Bar Association member $600 non-member Location: Allen County Bar Association, 924 South Calhoun St., Fort Wayne 46802 Provider: Allen County Bar […]
Program Chairs: – Justice Steven H. David, Indiana Supreme Court – Judge Cale J. Bradford, Indiana Court of Appeals Go to www.hoosiercle.org for full agenda and additional details. Date: Thursday, September 26 – Friday, September 27, 2019 Time (local time): 8:30 am – 4:00 pm (each day) Credit hours: 12.0 CLE / 2.0 Ethics Cost: $375 Click […]
The Supreme Court says the body of former Justice John Paul Stevens will lie in repose at the court on Monday. Stevens died Tuesday at age 99.
A judge has set a $100,000 bond for a Missouri truck driver facing felony charges for a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters.
An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for his role in the robbery and fatal shooting of a southern Indiana gun shop owner. A judge ordered the sentence Thursday after 24-year-old Darion Harris pleaded guilty.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
USA v. Joshua Herman
18-3057
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division.
Senior Judge James T. Moody.
Criminal. Majority led by Chief Judge Diane Wood denies en banc review, reverses and remands for resentencing of Joshua Herman on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm. Holds that the act of pointing a gun and ordering someone still, by itself, is not “physical restraint” under federal sentencing guidelines. Judges Joel Flaum and Michael Kanne dissent and would grant en banc review, and would find that the action of pointing a gun and ordering compliance is physical restraint. Judge William Bauer would affirm Herman’s 10-year sentence, with the physical restraint enhancement, for the reasons spelled out in Flaum’s dissent. Noting a now 5-4 circuit split on the conflicting views on the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B), orders the Clerk of Court to send this opinion to the U.S. Sentencing Commission for its consideration.
Each summer, two Indianapolis attorneys step away from their respective offices and embark on a sports-inspired adventure. The men have three things in common – they’re brothers, they both love baseball, and they’re on a mission to visit every major league ballpark.
A Missouri semitrailer driver was in court Thursday to face multiple felony charges resulting from a weekend crash in a construction zone on Interstate 465 that killed an Indianapolis mother and her 18-month-old twin daughters.
The question of whether an armed robber can be said to have physically restrained his victims as an enhancement under federal sentencing guidelines split the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. The ruling also deepened a wide circuit split on the issue, with judges answering the question by employing a classic legal maxim: It depends.
Federal prosecutors in New York have decided not to file any additional charges in their investigation of illegal hush money payments orchestrated by President Donald Trump’s lawyer to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal before the 2016 election.
Two southern Indiana groups are appealing an air permit that state regulators recently approved for a planned $2.5 billion coal-to-diesel plant.
More than 50,000 former college athletes next month will begin collecting portions of a $208 million class-action settlement paid by Indianapolis-based NCAA in a case that challenged its caps on compensation.
Former Indiana Pacers star and Auburn University assistant basketball coach Chuck Person’s lifelong generosity may have driven him to the poorhouse, but it saved him from the jailhouse Wednesday when a judge sentenced him in a bribery scandal that touched some of the biggest college basketball programs.
The Indiana Supreme Court will not hear the appeal of a northern Indiana man who was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the beating death of a 2-year-old left in his care. Justices denied a transfer petition sought in the case of Trevor Wert v. State of Indiana, 19A-CR-92, in which the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Trevor Wert’s murder conviction in the beating death of Railee Ewing.