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The Indiana Supreme Court split over whether a juvenile waived his right to be present when he skipped his hearing, but the justices came together in calling for a legislative remedy. Justices in a 3-2 decision reversed the teen’s juvenile delinquency adjudication.
An Anderson attorney who is the son of the city’s mayor and served as a deputy city attorney faces drunken-driving charges after he was allegedly involved in a property damage crash. The Madison County Prosecutor’s Office also is seeking habitual offender status against the lawyer.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for a Bloomington lawyer accused of legal malpractice, finding the evidence negated the proximate cause element of the claim.
The Indiana Department of Correction’s failure to provide inmates with recommended hepatitis C treatment violates their constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a groundbreaking order.
A 14-year-old southeastern Indiana boy charged in the suffocation deaths of his two young siblings told investigators that he killed them so that they wouldn’t “have to live in the hell that he did,” prosecutors allege.
A grand jury has indicted three former civilian employees of a northern Indiana sheriff’s office who allegedly were compensated for work they didn’t perform.
Indiana’s House speaker said Thursday a top-ranking Republican lawmaker is in critical condition after a motorcycle accident in Michigan. Rep. Tim Brown had been placed in a medically induced coma after the crash.
A top Indiana lawmaker was in a medically induced coma Wednesday after being involved in a motorcycle accident in northern Michigan, his traveling companion told Indianapolis Business Journal.
Prosecutors have filed formal charges against a central Indiana woman who had been drinking and was taking a nap while her 2-year-old son crawled into a hot car and later died.
Volunteers are needed to judge the upcoming inaugural Indy Mock Hundred mock trial invitational at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
The Indiana Supreme Court will travel north to Madison County later this month to hear an oral argument regarding how and when law enforcement may obtain historical cell phone location information in criminal investigations.
An attorney who has represented thousands of people sickened by contaminated food products dating back to the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak will speak at Indiana University McKinney School of Law Thursday.
A man who pleaded guilty to murder last year and was sentenced to 60 years in prison cannot withdraw his plea, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
A juvenile accused of robbing a pharmacy might not be tried in federal criminal court because attempted robbery is not considered a violent crime in Indiana, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, vacating the teen’s waiver to be tried as an adult.
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after Indiana Lawyer deadline Tuesday.
United States of America v. D.D.B.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division. Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
Criminal. Vacates the waiver of D.D.B. from juvenile to adult court on a robbery charge. Holds that attempted robbery does not satisfy the juvenile waiver requirement of a prior adjudication for a violent crime, because the Indiana attempted robbery statute does not include an intent element. Remands for proceedings.
A former Indiana State Police evidence clerk is accused of stealing more than $50,000 from the evidence room at the agency’s Bloomington police post.
A former northwestern Indiana city councilman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a man he owed a drug debt to.
The following 7th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion was posted after Indiana Lawyer deadline Monday.
Berry Plastics Corporation v. Illinois National Insurance Company
17-1815
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Evansville Division. Judge Richard L. Young.
Civil. Affirms the entry of summary judgment for Illinois National on Berry Plastics’ suit seeking indemnity from a $7.2 million jury damages award to a customer to whom Berry supplied defective laminate material used in the manufacture of products that later failed. Finds Berry failed to show that some portion of the lost profits theoretically might be attributable to property damage.
America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Indiana trial courts and the Department of Child Services have once again been chastised for denying due process rights in a termination of parental rights case in which a DCS case manager had a sexual relationship with a case client.