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Court documents show the will would have falsely made the attorney’s paralegal the personal representative of the paralegal’s son’s estate and disinherited the son’s two daughters.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Salvador A. Jones v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1102
Criminal. Affirms Salvador Jones’ conviction in Floyd Circuit Court for Level 5 felony robbery. Finds there is no Sixth Amendment right to counsel in Indiana prior to the initial hearing before an Indiana judicial officer. Also finds Jones did not properly invoke his right under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers to be brought to trial within 180 days of the state’s detainer request. Finally, finds the trial court did not commit fundamental error when it permitted the state to use self-authenticating affidavits as part of the foundation for the admissibility of surveillance videos and photographs. Attorney for appellant: Andrew Rutz. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Supervising Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender.
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he doesn’t “have the power” to return the man to the United States.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is expected to sign the latest version of Senate Bill 1, which supporters say would provide more than $1.4 billion in property tax relief over three years. Critics of the bill say local governments will raise income taxes to make up the difference.
A U.S. district court judge now is weighing whether to grant a request from the man’s legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt.
The onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance to prove to a federal jury that the newspaper defamed her with the 2017 editorial.
The appointment follows the death of Noble Circuit Court Judge Michael Kramer on March 28.
The estate of an inmate who died in July 2023 is suing the Indiana Department of Correction for allegedly failing to provide proper medical care.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Brandon Francis Schaefer v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1387
Criminal. Affirms Brandon Schaefer’s conviction for murder In Vanderburgh Circuit Court following a jury trial, where the jury found Schaefer guilty but mentally ill. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it, sua sponte and over his objection, instructed the jury on the possible penal consequences of a not responsible by reason of insanity verdict and a guilty but mentally ill verdict. Attorney for appellant: Yvette LaPlante. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Supervising Deputy Attorney General Ian McClean.
One case involves grandparent visitation and the other is a dispute over a settlement following a motor vehicle accident.
An Indiana Senate committee voted to amend a bill targeting the cost of health care at nonprofit hospitals, with the new version freezing prices but not imposing penalties for two years.
Senate fiscal leaders presented a conservative state budget plan Thursday morning that drops universal school choice and extraneous spending.
Officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to “self-deport.”
The court acted in the case of a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Melvin Lee Weaver v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-766
Criminal. Affirms Melvin Weaver’s reckless homicide conviction in Delaware Circuit Court. Finds Weaver’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence amounts to nothing more than an invitation to reweigh the evidence. Also finds that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the redacted BMV record into evidence. Attorneys for appellant: Mark Leeman, Tom F. Hirschauer, III. Attorneys for appellee” Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorney General Samuel Dayton.
U. S. District Court Judge Damon Leichty sentenced Kortney Moore, 27, of West Akron, Ohio, after Moore pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
The governor and legislative leaders have for weeks gone back and forth on the key components of Senate Bill 1.
Senate Bill 478 sets out advertising, age-limit, licensing, packaging, testing and other requirements for the hemp-derived products.
Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order pausing a ruling from the federal appeals court in Washington that had temporarily restored the two women to their jobs.
A split panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the terminations of federal workers should probably be appealed through a separate employment process rather than fought out in federal court.
