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If someone involved in a car crash isn’t buckled up, an Indiana jury currently isn’t allowed to know that due to the state’s longstanding prohibition on introducing such evidence. That will change as of July 1, thanks to the passage of House Bill 1090.
The Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana State Bar Association are taking big and small steps to help bridge the gap, from making more people eligible to take Indiana’s bar exam to studying the root causes of a shortage that could lead to a lack of access to the legal system.
Read Indiana appellate court decisions for the most recent reporting period.
About $2.3 million in grants are helping Lawrence Township Small Claims Court Judge Kimberly Bacon hire additional staff to support a local eviction diversion program that is serving nearly all of Marion County.
The overwhelming conclusion has been that lawyers, as a group, do a terrible job of retirement planning.
Data breaches are quite common for small law firms, happening far more often than you might expect. The obvious implication is one could happen to you.
There was clear and convincing evidence that a daughter repudiated her father, thus relieving him of his obligation to pay for her college under a marital dissolution decree, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Brooke Wells v. Joseph Todd Wells and Kimberly Renae Wells
23A-DR-990
Domestic relations. Affirms the Marion Superior Court’s finding that Brooke Wells repudiated her father, Joseph Wells, and therefore the father was relieved of his obligation to pay for her to attend college. Finds the trial court did not clearly err in finding the daughter repudiated her father. Judge Elizabeth Tavitas dissents with separate opinion.
The Indiana Supreme Court denied nine requests for transfer last week.
Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed several bills into law following the Indiana General Assembly’s adjournment Friday night. Several of those bills make adjustments to children in need of services, with one going into effect upon passage.
A mother’s right as a custodial parent to choose her child’s religious upbringing, plus a father’s conduct, justiifed a trial court’s order to reduce the father’s parenting time and restrict his child’s involvement at his church, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed.
A 30-year-old woman pleaded guilty to dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death after a man she gave heroin to died of an overdose, according to the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office.
President Joe Biden repeatedly told a special counsel that he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency, but he was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled.
Previously set for October, the jury trial for Richard Allen is now scheduled for May 13 through May 31, according to court records.
More third graders will be retained due to lack of reading proficiency under a bill Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Monday, three days after the conclusion of this year’s annual legislative session.
All six Republican candidates for Indiana governor gathered onstage Monday night at The Palladium in Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts and attempted to set themselves apart in a crowded field.
Donald Trump is seeking to delay his March 25 hush money trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.
A trial court correctly declared a mistrial in a murder defendant’s first trial and his second trial did not violate double jeopardy protections, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Monday in upholding a Tippecanoe Superior Court murder sentence.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Jermaine Garnes v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-606
Criminal. Affirms Jermaine Garnes’ murder conviction and 65-year prison sentence in Tippecanoe Superior Court. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion in declaring a mistrial in Garnes’s first trial and his second trial did not violate double jeopardy protections. Also finds his sentence is not inappropriate in light of Garnes’s character and the nature of his offense.
The state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that a Clark County man knowingly exerted unauthorized control over a motor vehicle and provided sufficient evidence for his felony auto theft conviction, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Monday.