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Indiana Supreme Court
Richard D. Shepard v. State of Indiana
84S01-1704-CR-190
Criminal. Reverses the Vigo Superior Court’s determination of the good time credit Richard Shepard earned while in a community corrections program. Finds the community correction director lacked authority to deprive Shepard of good time credit earned. Remands to the trial court with instructions to recalculate Shepard’s credit time.
Directors of community corrections programs do not have authority to revoke inmates’ good time credit as a disciplinary measure because the Indiana Department of Correction has not yet delegated that authority to community corrections programs, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday. The decision reversed rulings in the trial court and Court of Appeals.
A federal judge Wednesday ruled against 27 workers who claimed they suffered respiratory injuries from exposure to a microwave popcorn butter flavor ingredient that has been linked to lung disease in the manufacturing process.
Indiana Legal Services is partnering with a Valparaiso-based health care provider to launch a first-of-its-kind medical-legal partnership program in northwest Indiana.
Lawyers have an opportunity to earn two hours of continuing legal education ethics credit this month at an Indiana Lawyer program presented in partnership with Barnes & Thornburgh LLP.
An Indiana woman has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for neglect in the death of a 9-year-old blind boy with cerebral palsy who weighed just 15 pounds.
A historical documentary on the federal courts in Indiana is now available to view in full online.
A convicted cop killer who sued Alabama over its lethal injection method was put to death, but not before he cursed at the state and said: “I hate you.”
A southern Indiana city has agreed to pay $100,000 as part of a settlement after a city police officer’s personal medical information was disclosed at a public meeting.
A Gary man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting deaths of two Gary women whose bodies were discovered in a burning car in Indianapolis.
Top government lawyers representing 19 U.S. states on Wednesday asked a federal judge in California to force the administration of President Donald Trump to make health care subsidy payments that Trump abruptly cut off last week.
Indiana Court of Appeals
State of Indiana v. Pebble Stafford
39A04-1705-CR-930
Criminal. Affirms the Jefferson Circuit Court's sentence modification reducing the time Pebble Stafford was to serve in the Department of Correction after pleading guilty to Class B felony dealing in a controlled substance, Class C felony battery and Class B misdemeanor possession of substance to interfere with a screening test. Holds that the plain language of I.C. § 35-38-1-17(e) says offenders may not waive the right to sentence modification as part of a plea agreement, and trial courts are authorized to modify sentences. Remands to the trial court to omit suspension of the remainder of her six-year term to probation and to determine whether direct placement in community corrections would be appropriate.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez will present “The Lawyer’s Duty: Social Justice, Racial Justice, Economic Justice,” in the sixth annual Birch Bayh Lecture at Indiana Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The speech will be Tuesday, October 24 in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall.
Indiana courts are closing in on a goal of mandatory e-filing statewide by the end of 2018. Decatur Circuit and Superior Courts switched on e-filing in most cases Wednesday, becoming the sixty-third of Indiana’s 91 circuits to launch electronic filing.
Offenders who enter into plea agreements cannot waive future sentence modification under the plain language of a reform passed in 2014, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Thursday.
A first-of-its kind study finds women are the fastest-growing incarcerated population, with more than 219,000 behind bars in American jails and prisons.
A white former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer was convicted of first-degree manslaughter late Wednesday in the off-duty fatal shooting of his daughter's black boyfriend after jurors in three previous trials couldn't decide whether to find him guilty of murder.
A southern Indiana county has become the second in the state this year to end its needle exchange amid concerns that the programs provide illegal paraphernalia to intravenous drug users.
Four in 10 lawyers plan to boost spending on cybersecurity next year, with average budget increases of 13 percent, according to a study released Thursday by a national legal consulting and staffing firm.
A group of Indianapolis-area attorneys are restarting a decades-old tradition of camaraderie and competition by reviving a local lawyers’ basketball league.