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Data reported to the FBI each year by thousands of police departments across the country shows the percentage of youths taken into custody who were referred to adult courts has dropped from 8% in 2010 to 2% in 2019. Instead, more teenagers are being sent to juvenile courts or community programs that steer them to counseling, peer mediation and other services aimed at keeping them out of trouble.
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court has found HEA 1123, the controversial law allowing the Legislature to call itself into special session, violates the state’s constitution, handing Gov. Eric Holcomb a victory in a fight with the legislators that was ignited by the restrictions implemented during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jacqueline Kristen Dennis (Darbo) v. Gary Clyde Dennis
22A-DR-345
Domestic relations. Reverses the denial of the petition filed by Jacqueline Dennis (Darbo) asking the dissolution court to appoint a commissioner to execute a quitclaim deed or to declare the judgment lien her ex-husband held on the marital home to be satisfied and released. Finds the Hamilton Superior Court “understandably but mistakenly” relied on “the termination rule” and opinions describing the rule to conclude it lacked jurisdiction in this case. Finds the trial court does not lack jurisdiction to rule on Darbo’s petition. Remands.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is allowing a woman to pursue the quitclaim deed her former husband had promised after the trial court stopped the proceeding and concluded it no longer had jurisdiction to address the matter because the ex-husband died.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will host an in-person and virtual training session next month for lawyers interested in receiving training on modest means and pro bono representation of domestic violence victims.
A Martinsville man has been handed a 15-year sentence in federal prison for trafficking child sex abuse material, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana and Federal Bureau of Investigation Indianapolis announced Thursday.
Judge Douglas B. Cummins assumed duties as judge of Johnson Superior Court 3 on Tuesday after the Indiana Supreme Court revoked the pro tempore appointment of Senior Judge Jeffrey C. Eggers.
Speaking at the White House on Thursday night, President Joe Biden acknowledged the stiff political headwinds as he sought to drive up pressure on Congress to pass stricter gun limits after such efforts failed following past attacks.
After nearly a year of partisan battles, number-crunching and lawsuits, the once-a-decade congressional redistricting cycle is ending in a draw.
As the U.S. mourns the victims of its latest mass shooting — 19 elementary school students and two teachers gunned down in Texas — Democratic governors are amplifying their calls for greater restrictions on guns. Many Republican governors are emphasizing a different solution: more security at schools.
A former Mike Pence aide seeking to oust Indiana’s Republican secretary of state is embracing Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen while also fending off criticism about twice leaving jobs in that office after being written up for poor job performance.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Joseph L. Wilson v. State of Indiana
21A-CR-2308
Criminal. Affirms the denial of Joseph L. Wilson’s motion to modify his sentence. Finds Wilson has not demonstrated that the Jay Circuit has authority to modify his sentence while he is on parole.
An Indiana man’s request to modify his sentence to probation instead of parole has been denied by the Court of Appeals of Indiana, as it concluded the trial court didn’t have authority to make the change.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is preparing to hear arguments in cases involving solar farms, imminent domain and insurance coverage next week.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has overturned the aggregate 60-year sentence of a Union County man convicted of child molestation because the trial court did not explain its reasoning for the consecutive sentences.
A former Ohio police chief who admitted to misusing his position and conspiring with two Hoosier gun dealers to illegally traffic hundreds of fully automatic machine guns has been sentenced to three years of probation.
A $5,000 reward has been given to a person who provided help in capturing an inmate who sparked a nationwide manhunt after escaping with a jail official, Alabama’s governor said Wednesday.
The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during last week’s deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, said Wednesday that he’s talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he has stopped cooperating.
The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on a state domestic terrorism and hate crime charge that would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison.