Indy nursing home resident gets 45 years for murder and rape of 80-year-old invalid
A 61-year-old Indianapolis nursing home resident was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in prison for the murder and rape of an 80-year-old invalid last year.

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A 61-year-old Indianapolis nursing home resident was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in prison for the murder and rape of an 80-year-old invalid last year.
An Indianapolis woman pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from the straw purchase of a gun used to fatally shoot one central Illinois police officer and wound another in 2021.
A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
In The Matter of L.S., a Child in Need of Services, J.C. v. Indiana Department of Child Services
22A-JC-2822
Juvenile CHINS. Dismisses father J.C.’s appeal of the Vanderburgh Superior Court’s denial of his motion to modify the placement of his child, L.S. Finds father’s notice of appeal indicates that the order denying the modification is a final appealable order, but it is not. Also finds father did not seek an interlocutory appeal. Finally, finds the Court of Appeals lacks appellate jurisdiction.
A woman whose medical information was sent to the wrong person and then shared on social media is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to do away with the modified impact rule for negligence-based medical privacy breaches.
The town council of Kingsford Heights in northwest Indiana refuses access to its private Facebook page to people based on their content and expressed viewpoints, the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
An incarcerated father seeking to modify the placement of his child failed to properly file his appeal and left the Court of Appeals of Indiana without appellate jurisdiction, the court ruled Thursday in dismissing the appeal.
As the Supreme Court prepares to hand down a decision that could fundamentally alter affirmative action, a group of law deans — including Dean Christiana Ochoa at IU Maurer School of Law — has issued a statement affirming the deans’ commitment to diversity.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man whose conviction on gun charges was called into question by a recent high court decision is out of luck.
The state Attorney General’s Office has filed to appeal a judge’s decision to grant class action certification to a lawsuit that seeks to strike down Indiana’s near-total abortion ban on the basis of the state’s controversial religious freedom law.
A judge Wednesday sentenced three people to more than 100 years each in prison for the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest following George Floyd’s murder.
A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday for the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim.
A former Indiana congressman should spend three years in prison for committing insider trading while working as a consultant and lobbyist after his congressional career, prosecutors urged Wednesday.
An Indiana woman who won a multimillion-dollar verdict against a trucking company for a 2018 accident that left her quadriplegic cannot sue additional defendants for their alleged roles in the same accident, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Indiana Supreme Court
Kathryn Davidson v. State of Indiana, et al.
22S-CT-318
Civil tort. Affirms the Monroe Circuit Court’s judgment dismissing Kathryn Davidson’s lawsuit with prejudice and denying Davidson’s motions to correct error and to amend her complaint. Finds claim preclusion does not apply but issue preclusion does, and the trial court was correct in dismissing Davidson’s action on the latter ground. Also finds the trial court was not obliged to review the Rule 12 motions as motions under Rule 56. Finally, finds the trial court was entitled to dismiss the action with prejudice, so it did not violate Davidson’s due process rights.
The Indiana Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal in an adoption case, finding no appellate jurisdiction over the issue of temporary custody.
Judge Viola J. Taliaferro — who was considered an icon and groundbreaker in Bloomington and the Monroe County legal profession — died this month at 94.
A dog sniff that led to a man being convicted of possession of methamphetamine was sufficient to establish probable cause to search his truck, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in affirming a lower court’s decision.
The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday for what it called a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into its Prime program and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions.