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Speakers: • Justine Overturf Singh, Fifth Third Private Bank • Elizabeth A. Schlueter, Schlueter Breman LLC Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021 Time (local time): 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Credit hours: 1.0 CLE Cost: Click here or visit www.indybar.org for program costs Location: Zoom Webinar A Zoom link will be included in your registration confirmation […]
Click here for speakers and agenda. Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Time (local time): 9:00 am – 10:00 am Credit hours: 1.0 CLE Cost: Click here or visit www.indybar.org for program costs Location: Zoom Webinar A Zoom link will be included in your registration confirmation email and resent the day of the program. Provider: Indianapolis […]
Click here for speakers and agenda. Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Time (local time): 9:00 am – 10:00 am Credit hours: 1.0 CLE Cost: Click here or visit www.indybar.org for program costs Location: Zoom Webinar A Zoom link will be included in your registration confirmation email and resent the day of the program. Provider: Indianapolis […]
As the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on a count of incitement of insurrection began Tuesday, his Indianapolis lawyer who asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn election results in Wisconsin pleaded anew for the high court to keep the case alive because Trump may run again for president.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Travis W. Phelps v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
20A-CR-831
Criminal. Affirms Travis Walker Phelps’ convictions for murder and attempted murder but reverses his firearm enhancement. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion in instructing the jury or admitting evidence. Also finds that the Vanderburgh Superior Court failed to advise Phelps of his rights and therefore Phelps did not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waive his right to a jury trial on the enhancement. Remands for a new proceeding on the firearm enhancement.
For the second year in a row, the Indiana House Judiciary Committee has endorsed legislation to extend full faith and credit to tribal orders issued in Indiana by the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians.
Indiana lawmakers are moving forward with a pregnancy accommodations bill that won’t require businesses to make any adjustments for workers. Some legislators advocated for a measure that they said would offer pregnant workers more meaningful protections.
A larger surge of coronavirus deaths in Indiana during December than was initially reported contributed to an 18% jump in the state’s overall deaths during 2020.
An order requiring a confidential informant to sit down for a face-to-face interview with defense counsel will be reviewed by Indiana’s highest court after justices granted transfer to the Marion County case.
A Tennessee man has been charged with murder in the 1992 fatal shootings of a Gary woman and her 4-year-old daughter, the FBI said Monday.
The Justice Department will ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts, as the Biden administration moves to transition to its own nominees, a senior Justice Department official said Monday.
House Democrats proposed an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals as Congress began piecing together a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that tracks President Joe Biden’s plan for battling the pandemic and reviving a still staggering economy.
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under former President Donald Trump and to commute the sentences of inmates on federal death row.
Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial is an undertaking like no other in U.S. history, the defeated former president charged by the House with inciting the deadly mob attack on the U.S. Capitol to overturn the election in what prosecutors argue is the “most grievous constitutional crime.”
A coalition of state and national organizations are putting their support behind a juvenile justice bill in the Indiana Legislature that they say will bring much-needed reform and prevent the state from losing federal money. The measure advanced to the full Senate on Tuesday.
The state of Indiana will ask the Indiana Court of Appeals this week to reinstate a murder conviction against a mentally disabled man who won post-conviction relief 15 years after his initial conviction.
Indiana Court of Appeals
John J. Hatzfeld v. State of Indiana
20A-CR-1622
Criminal. Affirms John Hatzfeld’s conviction of Level 6 felony operating while intoxicated with a prior conviction. Finds there was sufficient evidence to sustain Hatzfeld’s conviction in Huntington Superior Court. Also finds that even if a blood test was erroneously admitted, the jury heard ample evidence of his intoxication beyond his blood alcohol content.
Former Indiana First Lady and attorney Susan Bayh has died at age 61 after nearly three years of brain cancer treatments, her family said Saturday.
The attorney who serves as executive secretary of the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission has been promoted to chairwoman of the commission, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Friday.
Nearing the mid-point of the 2021 legislative session, the Indiana Senate overrode Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of a bill that housing advocates claimed would put more Hoosier tenants at risk of eviction. Democrats harshly criticized the override as the work of a Republican supermajority “drunk on power.”