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Most of the commutations announced Thursday are for people who had been placed on home confinement during the pandemic, rather than put in prison where the spread of COVID was high.
Luigi Mangione ’s fingerprints also matched a water bottle and a snack bar wrapper that police found near the scene in midtown Manhattan, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an unrelated news conference.
Steven Schultz was booked at the Tippecanoe County Jail at 5:12 a.m. Wednesday on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent of 0.15 or more. Under Indiana law, 0.08 is considered intoxicated.
Middle-schoolers from across the state were on hand Tuesday as 75 new U.S. citizens were honored at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Indianapolis as part of the Indiana Bar Foundation’s We The People program.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Trenton A. Whitaker-Blakey v. State of Indiana
24A-CR-1191
Criminal. Affirms Delaware Circuit Court Judge Douglas K. Mawhorr’s judgment finding Trenton Wahitaker-Blakey guilty of Level 6 felony intimidation. Finds there is sufficient evidence to support Whitaker-Blakey’s conviction. Also finds that Whitaker-Blakey’s use of a racial slur while wearing a white sheet on his head demonstrated a clear intent to communicate a threat to Officer Erin Phillips, who was a law enforcement officer. Attorney for appellant: Scott Mandarich. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorney General Megan Smith.
Albertsons is accusing Kroger of not doing enough to secure regulatory approval for the $24.6 billion agreement, which would have been the largest grocery store merger in U.S. history.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled that an act signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2023 that gives local utilities the right of first refusal on electric transmission projects discriminates against interstate commerce.
The court’s ruling emphasized that concerns raised by defense counsel over Joseph Corcoran’s mental health have already “been thoroughly litigated in both state and federal courts.” Those prior court proceedings concluded that Corcoran was competent to waive his post-conviction options.
The athletes whose lawsuit against the Indianapolis-based NCAA is primed to pave the way for schools to pay them directly also want a players’ association to represent them in the complex contract negotiations that have overtaken the sport.
Backers of the project asked the justices to get the project back on track and urged them limit the scope of environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act to speed up development.
The displays of resistance Tuesday weren’t expected to significantly delay legal proceedings for Luigi Nicholas Mangione, who was charged in last week’s Manhattan killing of Brian Thompson, the leader of the United States’ largest medical insurance company.
A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the conspiracy theory platform as flawed as well as how much money families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting stood to receive.
Kroger and Albertsons in 2022 proposed what would be the largest grocery store merger in U.S. history. But the Federal Trade Commission sued earlier this year, seeking to block the $24.6 billion deal.
The Indiana Supreme Court has declined to hear a case in which a man’s car was searched without a warrant based on the smell of burnt marijuana in his vehicle.
Democrats are having second thoughts about the measure now that President-elect Donald Trump has won a second term. The proposal would add a federal judgeship in the Southern District of Indiana, which includes Indianapolis and is considered one of the most overburdened areas in the nation.
Judges, friends, and family from across the state gathered in Indianapolis on Monday to celebrate the newest Indiana Court of Appeals judge, Mary DeBoer, at her robing ceremony inside the Indiana Statehouse.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Denise Paul Hatch, Constable of the Center Township of Marion County Small Claims Court v. The Honorable Brenda A. Roper, Judge of the Center Township of Marion County Small Claims Court
24A-PL-1375
Civil plenary. Dismisses s Constable of Marion County’s Center Township Small Claims Court Denise Hatch’s appeal of Marion Superior Court Judge Kurt Eisgruber’s judgment in favor of Judge Brenda Roper regarding Roper’s appointment of special constables to carry out Hatch’s duties. Finds that Hatch has since been removed from her public office by operation of law and her appellate claims are therefore moot. Also finds that though there exists a public interest exception to the mootness doctrine, it is inapplicable here because circumstances of Hatch’s case are unusual enough that they are not likely to recur. Attorney for appellant: Andrea Ciobanu. Attorneys for appellee: Attorney General Todd Rokita, Deputy Attorney General Evan Comer.
The civil rights complaint was filed Monday in federal court against Indiana’s Department of Correction after the agency rejected Joseph Corcoran’s request to be accompanied by a spiritual adviser.
Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, had pleaded guilty to a yearslong scheme to transport girls across state lines for his sex crimes.
Jeff Tanenbaum, president of ThreeSixty Asset Advisors, was grilled by lawyers for Jones and the company in a Houston courtroom over how The Onion’s bid came to be valued at $7 million and why a live auction was not held.