Indianapolis police fatally shoot male who pointed a weapon at others and threatened them
Indianapolis police fatally shot a male pointing a weapon at other people and threatening to shoot them Thursday afternoon.
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Indianapolis police fatally shot a male pointing a weapon at other people and threatening to shoot them Thursday afternoon.
The prosecution’s star witness has yet to take the stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are already hearing Michael Cohen’s words as prosecutors work to directly tie Trump to payments to silence women with damaging claims about him before the 2016 election.
Police have arrested nearly 2,200 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings.
The Indiana Supreme Court dismissed an appeal to allow a woman to enter the Perry County Courthouse after the Perry Circuit Court entered an administrative order preventing her from getting in without an assigned escort.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita weighed in Wednesday on a politically charged transgender issue, issuing an advisory opinion that declares that neither state nor federal law requires the usage of preferred pronouns in the workplace.
Indiana Supreme Court
Dustin A. Lane v. State of Indiana
24S-CR-150
Criminal. Affirms Dustin Lane’s aggregate sentence of more than eight years for 10 misdemeanors he committed by sending letters from prison to his former partner, while serving time after a domestic battery conviction and in violation of a no-contact order. Finds that a lengthy sentence of incarceration for such offenses is necessary to protect victims and the community from an offender with a history of violence. Also finds that Lane’s crimes and character indicate that he poses a continuing danger of restarting a cycle of physical and emotional abuse towards A.N. Justice Derek Molter dissents with separate opinion in which Justice Mark Massa joins.
President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats.
Donald Trump faces the prospect of additional sanctions in his hush money trial as he returns to court Thursday for another contempt hearing followed by testimony from a lawyer who represented two women who have said they had sexual encounters with the former president.
An attack advertisement featuring garbled audio clips of a congressional candidate could provoke an early test of a 50-day-old law cracking down on digitally altered campaign media.
Joshua Richard, 26, of Noblesville was fatally shot by Beech Grove Police Lt. Jeff Bruner, Indiana State Police said.
The Indiana Supreme Court decided Tuesday that more than $11,000 confiscated from a parolee’s apartment should be returned to the parolee’s aunt, overturning a Marion Superior Court ruling.
Indiana Court of Appeals
James P. Devlin v. Horizon Bank, successor in interest to Salin Bank & Trust Company by merger
23A-MF-1986
Mortgage foreclosure. Affirms the Hendricks Superior Court’s amended judgment in favor of Horizon Bank, the successor in interest to Salin Bank & Trust Company, and its ruling to foreclose on the mortgage and its amended in rem judgment against James Devlin’s property. Finds that Devlin’s arguments, if adopted, would undermine good-faith dealings between lenders and debtors and would empower sureties to litigate any subsequent action of a debtor as “misconduct” entitling the surety to discharge. Also finds that Devlin’s position is not consistent with Indiana law.
Indiana and five other Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law.
The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.
The increasing cost of public defenders for misdemeanor cases is each county’s own problem. Indiana hasn’t reimbursed for those services in nearly three decades. That’s about to change.
A ruling from the Federal Trade Commission could ban the use of noncompetes for all but the highest earners if it survives legal scrutiny.
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used copyrighted newspaper articles to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
A Vanderburgh County jury has found a man guilty but mentally ill in a murder trial involving a January 2023 shooting incident.
Indiana Court of Appeals
David R. Benjamin v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-2367
Criminal. Affirms David Benjamin’s conviction in Knox Circuit Court for Level 3 felony aggravated battery. Finds that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting a doctor’s testimony regarding whether the victim’s injuries created a substantial risk of death. Also finds Benjamin has waived his evidentiary appellate challenge because he objected at trial on one ground and raised a different ground on appeal. Finally, finds that any error in the admission of the evidence was harmless.