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Residents in homeless shelters in Indianapolis are receiving legal advice and guidance through the Homeless Shelter Project. The program, now administered by the Indianapolis Bar Association, sends pairs of attorneys to a handful of shelters around the city every three weeks to meet with residents needing help.
Community corrections officers should have cause before searching the home of someone who has signed a waiver of their Fourth Amendment rights as a condition of probation, a lawyer argued recently before the Indiana Supreme Court.
More than half of states in the U.S. have enacted laws increasing their minimum wages above the federal standard of $7.25 an hour, but the Indiana Legislature won’t even discuss it.
The Indiana House Judiciary Committee has unanimously passed a funding bill that would provide the resources that many agree are necessary to reduce the number of nonviolent offenders who repeatedly reenter the criminal justice system.
The Indiana Supreme Court will review summary judgment in favor of healthcare providers sued for medical malpractice in a stillbirth case as well as an adoption by a grandmother who claimed a 1997 conviction for neglect of a dependant should not automatically bar her from adopting the children.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Paul D. Stucker v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
46A05-1403-CR-117
Criminal. Affirms conviction and 45-year sentence for murder.
Michael L. Turner v. Jennifer D. Pence (mem. dec.)
90A05-1409-DR-447
Domestic relation. Affirms denial of Turner’s motion to hold Pence in contempt.
In the Matter of: S.E. (Minor Child), a Child in Need of Services, and L.E. (Father) v. Indiana Department of Child Services (mem. dec.)
29A02-1406-JC-416
Juvenile. Affirms order finding S.E. to be a child in need of services.
Stephen Perry v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
29A04-1406-CR-291
Criminal. Affirms conviction of Class A felony conspiracy to commit murder.
Neil A. Clements v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
18A04-1406-CR-268
Criminal. Affirms revocation of commitment to community corrections order to serve previously suspended sentence for conviction of Class C felony nonsupport of a dependent.
Shaun Terrell Balkcom v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
71A03-1407-CR-254
Criminal. Affirms convictions of Class A felony and Class C felony charges of child molesting.
Justin Mullins v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
48A04-1403-CR-115
Criminal. Affirms revocation of probation.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Shane L. Keller v. State of Indiana
88A04-1404-CR-168
Criminal. Affirms in part, reverses in part and remands the 50-year aggregate sentence for convictions of two counts of Class B felony burglary, one count of Class C felony burglary, three counts of Class D felony theft, two counts of Class D felony receiving stolen property, and enhancement for habitual offender. Remands with instructions to vacate two receiving stolen property convictions and the sentences for them because they violate the prohibition against double jeopardy with respect to the theft convictions.
A trial court erred in granting summary judgment to a hospital and a doctor who performed a hysterectomy during which an arm board became unattached. After the patient’s arm dangled for much of the surgery, she was diagnosed with nerve damage in her arm.
The ex-husband in an acrimonious domestic relations case is entitled to $9,000 in legal fees a trial court awarded to him as well as judgments in his favor on parenting time and child support, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
A man who repeatedly broke into property and stole tools and items being used to renovate a long-vacant farmhouse likely will remain sentenced to 50 years in prison, even though the Indiana Court of Appeals vacated two of his convictions as violations of the prohibition against double jeopardy.
A woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her 3-year-old son is suing the government and alleges a federal officer helped investigators frame her for the crime.
A Steuben County town court judge who was admonished in 2012 for improper ex parte communications for assuming the role of prosecutor in a traffic infraction in her court has been admonished again for a similar violation.
Indiana lawmakers are taking up Republican-backed proposals to eliminate straight party-line voting on state ballots and require the use of voter identification numbers for mail-in absentee ballots, moves that Democrats argue will make voting more difficult and could hurt turnout.
George Pancol, judge of Madison Circuit Court 2, is going blind. The doctors can't agree why.
A terminally ill woman whose desire to have her same-sex marriage recognized by Indiana before she died helped galvanize efforts to overturn the state's gay marriage ban has lost her battle with cancer.
One-time Martin Circuit judge and county prosecutor Robert J. Howell pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he failed to pay more than $66,000 in taxes on receipts from his law firm in Loogootee.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Max E. Long v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
07A05-1405-CR-222
Criminal. Affirms convictions of Class C felony operating a vehicle with lifetime suspension and Class A misdemeanor operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and revocation of probation.
In Re The Guardianship of Samantha R. Barton, Harriet Barton v. James P. Barton (mem. dec.)
85A02-1403-GU-213
Guardianship. Affirms appointment of James P. Barton guardian of Samantha R. Barton.
Tamara Krebs v. Michael C. Krebs (mem. dec.)
49A02-1402-DR-66
Domestic relation. Affirms order granting Michael C. Krebs primary physical custody of the parties’ two children.
Shannon Robertson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
79A05-1407-CR-302
Criminal. Reverses intimidation conviction as double jeopardy with a conviction of attempted battery with a deadly weapon. Remands with instructions to vacate the intimidation conviction.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Kirk R. Jocham v. Melba Sutliff
29A02-1406-DR-424
Domestic relation. Reverses order granting Sutliff grandparent visitation. The court ruled that Sutliff, the maternal grandmother, had no standing to petition for visitation when she did because her former son-in-law had remarried and the couple had adopted the grandchild after the death of Sutliff’s daughter, the grandchild’s mother.
An Indiana Court of Appeals panel Friday stripped a maternal grandparent of visitation rights, finding she had no standing to seek visitation. The parents of the child had divorced, and the father remarried shortly after the mother’s death.
Guantanamo Bay and its long-term consequences will be examined during the annual symposium of the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.