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A man who beat his pregnant girlfriend and urged her to change her story and not testify against him did not convince the Indiana Court of Appeals to reverse his sentence and convictions.
A woman whose former high school swim coach is now imprisoned for sexually exploiting her while she was a member of the swim team is suing a suburban Indianapolis school district, alleging that it failed to protect her from the abuse.
USA Gymnastics has filed a bankruptcy plan that includes an offer of $215 million for sexual abuse survivors to settle their claims against the embattled Indianapolis-based organization.
An Indiana man on Thursday pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the 2016 strangulation death of a radio personality and her daughter.
A man who pleaded guilty to providing a handgun used to kill a Boone County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 46 years in prison on drug and weapons charges.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed the revocation of man’s probation after he committed multiple new offenses.
A man convicted of resisting law enforcement after refusing to remove his hands from his pockets did not persuade the Indiana Court of Appeals that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction.
The elected prosecutor of Knox County in southwestern Indiana faces an attorney discipline case related to his conduct stemming from a local police investigation into his former deputy prosecutor’s relationship with a woman who was serving time on drug charges. An attorney for the prosecutor, however, is contesting the discipline case and says the prosecutor is the victim of a vendetta born of the small-town rumor mill.
Indiana Court of Appeals
City of Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals v. UJ-Eighty Corporation
19A-PL-00457
Civil plenary. Majority affirms the Monroe Circuit Court’s grant of UJ-Eighty Corp.’s petition seeking judicial review of the Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals’ decision that affirmed the issuance of two notices of violation against UJ-Eighty. Finds the City of Bloomington improperly delegated authority to Indiana University in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Affirms that the ordinance unconstitutionally violates due process. Judge L. Mark Bailey dissents with opinion.
Bills that would allow for summonses to appear instead of arrests in misdemeanor cases and that would raise the small claims filing limit statewide have passed the Indiana House of Representatives.
A Hendricks County battle over whether a hog farming operation is protected by Indiana’s Right to Farm Act arrived at the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday with opposing counsel arguing the limits and the intent of the statute.
A convicted rapist has failed to overturn his convictions of sexual assault against his ex-girlfriend, with the Indiana Court of Appeals rejecting his challenges to the trial court’s evidentiary and procedural rulings.
A homeschooled teen who threatened to shoot students at northern Indiana high school did not convince an Indiana Court of Appeals panel that there wasn’t enough evidence to support his delinquency adjudication.
An expert in property law and former university vice provost at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the third finalist for the dean’s position at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney.
A split appellate court has affirmed for a southern Indiana property owner in a dispute over a former Indiana University fraternity house after the university decided to no longer recognize the fraternity. In doing so, the panel struck down a local Bloomington ordinance that deferred to IU in regulating fraternities and sororities.
At last during the impeachment trial, they got to do what comes naturally in their native habitat: speak on the Senate floor. But when senators engaged in a bit of their beloved talk, the result was something between a political debate and a low-budget reality show.
The Indiana Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a man sentenced to 100 years in prison for molesting 20 children while working at a YMCA and at an elementary school.
The Indiana House endorsed a proposal Wednesday that would ban motorists from using handheld cellphones, a step supporters say is aimed at combating distracted driving.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Raymond E. Cook, III v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
19A-CR-1594
Criminal. Affirms Raymond Cook III’s aggregate seven-year sentence for conviction in Ripley Circuit Court of Level 5 felony dealing in methamphetamine and Level 6 felony maintaining a common nuisance. Finds the sentence is not inappropriate in light of the nature of the offenses and his character.
A federal court has ordered an Indiana prison’s food service company to comply with an inmate’s medical orders that he receive meals that are free of soy and egg ingredients due to claimed food allergies.