Garner to lead Marion Superior Court Executive Committee
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Marion Superior Judge Charnette Garner has been elected to serve as the presiding judge of the Marion Superior Court Executive Committee for the 2023-2024 term.

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Marion Superior Judge Charnette Garner has been elected to serve as the presiding judge of the Marion Superior Court Executive Committee for the 2023-2024 term.
Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Carmel residence last week, his lawyer says, the latest in a string of recoveries of confidential information from the homes of current and former top U.S. officials.
The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed a criminal recklessness conviction Tuesday despite finding that the defendant’s state and constitutional rights were violated.
Keesha R. Johnson v. State of Indiana
22A-CR-427
Criminal. Affirms Keesha R. Johnson’s conviction of Class A misdemeanor criminal recklessness. Finds that the Marion Superior Court violated Johnson’s federal and state constitutions rights of confrontation when the court required the witnesses to wear masks while testifying, but the violations of Johnson’s constitutional rights were harmless.
A bill that would create a special prosecutors unit within the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council and would also establish a prosecutor commission similar to the Indiana Public Defender Commission has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
The Indiana Northern District Court is honoring longtime Magistrate Judge Andrew P. Rodovich with a courtroom named in his honor.
Jurors for the trial of an Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls from Delphi will be brought from one of two counties north of the location where the murder occurred, attorneys in the case decided Friday.
U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.
President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment but has taken no major steps to that end.
The Indianapolis-based NCAA will ask a federal appeals court next month to block a lawsuit that seeks to have athletes treated as employees who are paid for their time, the latest high-profile challenge to amateurism in college sports.
President Benjamin Harrison’s home in the Old Northside Neighborhood of Indianapolis is now the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, and it will be put into the spotlight as part of a new exhibit.
The Indiana Supreme Court is seeking public comment on a proposed rule change that would broaden pro bono reporting requirements to include public service or charitable groups or organizations.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Megan M. Smith v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
22A-CR-1166
Criminal. Affirms Megan M. Smith’s convictions of Class A misdemeanor domestic battery and Class A misdemeanor invasion of privacy. Finds Smith did not preserve her argument that the Knox Superior Court could not consider the record of proceedings on the order for protection, nor is there any fundamental error on that issue. Also finds the state presented sufficient evidence.
The Marion County Judicial Selection Committee will interview 25 applicants next week for two open positions on the Marion Superior Court.
The Indiana Supreme Court has appointed one senior judge and released another from judge pro tempore service following the appointment of the two newest judges of the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
Old National Bank is suing financial technology firm Backbase over what Indiana’s largest homegrown bank is describing as Backbase’s “unmitigated failure” to fulfill $18 million in software contracts for a Chicago bank Old National has acquired.
Police in Indiana said Friday that heroic actions by an Evansville Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot and injured one female employee from doing more harm.
The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.
Lawyers expect jury selection to last several days before testimony begins in the trial of disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh.