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The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed two CHINS petitions when it ruled fact-finding hearings must be completed within 120 days of filing, regardless of any act or agreements of the parties involved.
A man found guilty of two counts of dealing in synthetic marijuana — commonly referred to as Spice — should have been convicted of just one charge even though the substances bore different names, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
Two new members have been appointed to the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners as announced in an order signed Friday by Chief Justice Loretta Rush.
An Allen County councilman has been selected to fill the seat of the outgoing Republican leader of the Indiana Senate, President Pro Tem David Long, also of Fort Wayne.
The nation’s highest court will hear an Indiana civil forfeiture case next month that could determine whether the Eighth Amendment’s protections against excessive fines can be applied on the state level.
An immigration case before the Supreme Court pits the government against immigrants it wants to deport after crimes they have committed in the United States.
Prosecutors are asking a judge to lock up the former Van Buren town marshal until his trial on charges that he allegedly took medication from a home while in uniform.
Indiana Court of Appeals
James Wade Baker, Jr. v. State of Indiana
30A01-1710-CR-2511
Criminal. Affirms James Baker’s conviction of Level 6 felony resisting law enforcement by use of a vehicle and Class A misdemeanor driving while suspended with a prior similar offense within the past 10 years. Finds the Hancock Superior Court erred in admitting hearsay evidence from Deputy Kevin Stickford but noted the hearsay evidence was harmless and did not contribute to the jury’s verdict. Also finds the state erred when it asked Baker a question before reading him his Miranda rights. Finds there is sufficient evidence to support the conviction based on eyewitness testimony.
E-filing is now mandatory in Warrick County, with just four more counties remaining to implement the online filing system.
A habitual offender convicted of resisting law enforcement could not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday that a trial court’s error in admitting hearsay evidence in his case made a fair trial impossible.
The Indiana Supreme Court last week denied an appeal from eight members of the Lockerbie Glove Factory Town Home Owners Association who are challenging a construction project in a downtown Indianapolis historic district.
Health care providers who removed part of a man’s lung after a biopsy sample was misread as likely cancerous are entitled to summary judgment in his medical malpractice case, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, reversing a trial court ruling.
After losing electricity around 4 a.m., Adi Martínez Román braced herself for the worst as Hurricane Maria slammed into her Puerto Rican home in September 2017.
Longtime Indianapolis real estate development attorney Barbara A. Wolenty is being remembered as a talented but tough dealmaker, spirited and gifted friend, well-regarded adviser and beloved mother and wife. Wolenty died Oct. 2 at age 62 after battling cancer.
A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis says a sexual misconduct allegation against a priest has been found “credible.”
The Supreme Court of the United States is rejecting an appeal from a man convicted of joining a New Orleans police officer in the killing of her fellow officer and two other people during a 1995 robbery.
Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate who was found unresponsive in his Marion County Jail cell. A 33-year-old man was found unresponsive by jail staff Saturday.
An Elkhart police officer accused of using excessive force when he deployed a K-9 officer on a suspect lying in a cornfield has lost his bid for summary judgment and qualified immunity in federal court.
Arguing the Indiana Supreme Court “asserted a novel public right to access the entire beach” of Lake Michigan, private lakeshore landowners Friday asked the Supreme Court of the United States to rule that the public was entitled to use no part of the beach above the water itself.