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Indiana Court of Appeals
Heidi Carter v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-817
Criminal. Affirms the Vanderburgh Circuit Court’s conviction of Heidi Carter for murder. Finds the trial court did not err when it denied Carter’s motion to dismiss the refiled murder charge. Also finds there is sufficient evidence to support her murder conviction.
The judge responded to a jury request by rereading 30 pages of jury instructions. The 12-person jury, which deliberated for about 4 1/2 hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict, also reheard testimony Thursday morning from a tabloid publisher and Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.
The lawsuit comes almost a year after the state Supreme Court upheld the ban but left the door open for Hoosiers to sue over specific parts of the law.
Brian Metcalf, who served as CEO of Indianapolis-based Tindley Accelerated Schools from July 2019 to December 2022, was charged with nine counts of wire fraud.
The charge comes after a lawsuit alleged Julious Johnican allowed and encouraged students to attack their 7-year-old classmate.
Cybercriminals used Yunhe Wang’s network of zombie residential computers to steal “billions of dollars from financial institutions, credit card issuers and accountholders, and federal lending programs since 2014,” according to an indictment.
Lewis Wagner LLP Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2014 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I graduated with a major in English writing and a minor in sociology from DePauw University. As graduation approached, I panicked when faced with the inevitable (and well-intentioned) question of what came next. I wanted to […]
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 1994 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? From the time I was a child, I looked up to lawyers as people who could right wrongs and defend others. Although my sense of the roles of lawyers became more nuanced over […]
Marion Superior Court University of Missouri School of Law, 2002 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I announced in elementary school that I was going to be a lawyer. I honestly do not know where I came up with the idea. I did not know any lawyers personally. Maybe it was from […]
Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 1992 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I was in college at DePauw trying to decide between pursuing an MBA at the University of Chicago and going to law school. My faculty adviser told me that a legal education was so versatile, […]
Bose McKinney & Evans LLP Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2017 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I would be lying if I said I had not seen a few movies about the profession that made being an attorney look glamorous. But really, growing up I had family friends and mentors […]
Ice Miller LLP University of Texas, 1981 If you weren’t working in legal support, what would you be doing? I’d probably still be in Dallas working in the oil and gas business. One of my friends is president of a mid-sized oil and gas production company, and I would likely have ended up doing something […]
Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana Howard University School of Law, 1984 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I wanted to work with my father, Charles A. Walton. My father was an attorney who graduated from IU School of Law in 1959. He was a member of the […]
IU Health Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2015 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I was a biology major at IU, and I ended up taking a course on health policy in the United States in which we read “The Healing of America” by T.R. Reid. I was hooked. The book […]
Cohen & Malad LLP Southern Illinois University Law School, 2015 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I am privileged to be a fourth-generation attorney, so I was introduced to the legal profession at a very early age. When I was little, I remember going to my dad’s law office to change uniforms […]
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Western Governors University, 2019 Why did you decide to become a paralegal/legal support staffer? I have always enjoyed the unique, complex problem-solving that the legal field demands. If you weren’t working in legal support, what would you be doing? Teaching high school kids and coaching basketball. What’s something people […]
Church Church Hittle + Antrim IUPUI Paralegal Program, 2007 If you weren’t working in legal support, what would you be doing? After roughly 17 years of experience as a litigation paralegal and having had the opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest attorneys practicing law, I cannot imagine going to work every […]
The Indiana Lawyer is proud to present its 2024 Leadership in Law honorees. These 36 men and women represent the strength and the future of Indiana's legal profession. PRESENTING SPONSOR UNDERWRITING SPONSOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana Howard University School of Law, […]
Lewis Wagner LLP IU McKinney School of Law, 1983 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? My grandfather had encouraged me to become an attorney, although he was not one. After graduating from Purdue, I took the LSAT and did well and decided to go to law school. I thought a law degree […]
Church Church Hittle + Antrim Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2016 Why did you decide to enter the legal profession? I was arguing with my mom about something in our kitchen when I was 4. She told me, “You’re like a dog with a bone. You better become an attorney!” After that comment, I […]