Notre Dame exoneration clinic frees its third client
Kara Beaty was exonerated after receiving a six-year sentence for causing a severe crash with a motorcyclist back in 2020.

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Kara Beaty was exonerated after receiving a six-year sentence for causing a severe crash with a motorcyclist back in 2020.
More businesses are popping up in Indiana and across the country to help small law firms alleviate the stress of financial and administrative tasks.
State lawmakers cut nine judicial posts in four counties and added 8 judicial jobs in four others.
For some immigration attorneys, like Vicki Fortino, there are mounting frustrations with how the new court operates in Indianapolis.
Refreshing myself on the foundations of the term really helped to re-energize my thoughts on the rule of law, and its importance to a functioning society.
Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s novel “Blood Meridian” represents not justice but its complete negation, a character of insurmountable force and philosophical complexity.
Big thanks to our Law Day organizers and volunteers: Chris Hickey, Travis Jensen, Kerry Bennett, Joe Delamater, Jim Klimek, Mike Hebenstreit, Judge Robyn Moberly, and Janet Thompson.
The Indianapolis Bar Association’s Lambda Committee will participate in the Indianapolis Pride Parade on June 14.
Indiana is one of only two states with a death penalty law that doesn’t provide for media witnesses.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.
A pair of Hamilton Superior Court lawsuits alleging negligence on Amazon’s part are heading back to trial court, after the Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer in both cases.
A pair of voting advocacy groups have sued the state over a controversial new law that prohibits the use of college IDs as a form of identification at the polls.
The Hendricks County Courthouse reopened Tuesday, a day after sheriff’s deputies shot and killed an armed man outside the courthouse, halting all court business for the day.
Indiana Court of Appeals
State of Indiana v. Devin A. Dickens
24A-CR-1912
Criminal. Reverses Dubois Superior Court Special Judge Nathan Verkamp’s dismissal of two counts alleging Devin Dickens possessed, and possessed with intent to deliver, a controlled substance. Finds the dismissal of the charges was improper because the charging information, taken as true, alleges valid criminal offenses and to the extent the probable cause affidavit can be said to contain conflicting facts, it is the function of a trier of fact to ascertain whether the substance was, in fact, contraband. Remands the case for further proceedings. Attorneys for appellant: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorneys General Kathy Jo Bradley, Brandon Smith. Attorney for appellee: Victoria Bailey Casanova.
Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed remorse and shed tears as he pleaded Monday for the state’s parole board to spare his life.
The Trump administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.
A judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States under a court order partially blocking the president’s efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program.
Problem-solving courts are not soft on crime—they are smart on justice. They are about accountability AND opportunity.
A new lawsuit has been filed against a teacher with Indianapolis Public Schools, accusing him of orchestrating a “fight club” environment in his classroom by allegedly encouraging and recording videos of students fighting or being beaten by other students.
A Fort Wayne man faces more than five years in prison after being sentenced last week for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.