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Court of Appeals of Indiana
David W. Helvey v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
23A-CR-299
Criminal. Affirms David Helvey’s aggregate 20-month sentence for Level 6 felony intimidation and four counts of Class A misdemeanor intimidation. Finds Helvey’s sentence is not inappropriate in light of the nature of the offenses and his character.
A woman who sued her ex-employer for fraud after her position was eliminated the day she started work cannot add a new fraud claim to her amended complaint, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed.
A federal judge has granted most of a property owners association’s motions for judgment and dismissed with prejudice multiple damage-related claims in a civil lawsuit stemming from a 2015 sewage leak caused by a faulty lift station.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita released a fourth edition of his “Parents’ Bill of Rights” document Tuesday, outlining what Hoosier parents can do to “oversee and participate in the part of our children’s education that occurs outside of the home.”
A 36-year-old central Indiana man made his initial appearance Tuesday in court following a shooting at a massive block party that left one person dead and 17 others wounded.
The U.S. Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the convictions and sentences for five people who took part in a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration, with the exception of a clerical error in a supervised release condition for one of the defendants.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed a man’s conviction for dealing resulting in death, finding the trial court didn’t abuse its discretion in admitting text messages from the victim’s phone as evidence.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed a trial court’s denial of a man’s petition challenging his continued confinement at a mental health facility, finding the evidence showed the man remained dangerous to himself and others.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s new 25-foot encroachment law, which prohibits a person from approaching within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after the officer has ordered the person to stop.
A trial court abused its discretion by not granting a man’s request for a mistrial based on an “evidentiary harpoon,” the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a Tuesday reversal.
After a series of back-and-forth decisions, a higher assessment will remain in place for land owned by a Bartholomew County couple whose challenge to that higher assessment for two tax years was untimely.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Kurt Russell v. State of Indiana
22A-CR-2299
Criminal. Affirms Kurt Russell’s conviction of Level 1 felony dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death. Finds the Boone Superior Court did not abuse its discretion when it admitted evidence extracted from a phone other than the one found on the counter near Maxwell Timbrook’s body because the content of both phones were the same given that they were linked to the same iCloud account. Also find the state presented sufficient evidence that Russell delivered fentanyl to Timbrook, and he died ingesting the fentanyl.
The Indiana Department of Correction plans to close the state prison in Michigan City after a new, $1.2 billion prison facility was approved last week by budget regulators. That’s a change from the DOC’s previous plan to keep both prison sites open.
There’s a growing trend among states to propose and enact legislation allowing teens — as young as 14 — to serve alcohol in restaurants, among laws rolling back other child labor limits.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an injunction to prevent the government from implementing regulations that took effect last month while it considers a lawsuit brought by Career Colleges and Schools of Texas.
The threat of a Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’s family finances and the churning U.S. House probes of his son, Hunter Biden, have turned off some conservative voters.
A former fifth-grade teacher in northwestern Indiana who was charged with felony intimidation after authorities say she told a student she had a “kill list” of students and staff has been sentenced to 2½ years on probation.
A hospital director who claimed she couldn’t wear a mask to work during COVID due to her anxiety failed to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that her discrimination and retaliation claims against her former employer should be revived.