Larry Komp, lead attorney for death row inmate Joseph Corcoran’s legal team, told the Indiana Capital Chronicle his client is seeking a last plea with a clemency petition, however. Komp said he plans to visit with Corcoran — who’s currently being held at the Indiana State Prison— and file the necessary paperwork this week.
A federal judge late Friday blocked a law creating a 25-foot buffer zone around law enforcement officers during certain activities.
A dockworkers’ strike is threatening to close ports on the East and Gulf coasts beginning this week. If 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association make good on their threat to strike, they could shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas that handle about half the goods shipped into and out of the United States.
The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity and the need to take contraception “to control their moods.”
This is the second death row inmate Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has sought an execution date for in recent months — ever since state officials ended their years-long struggle to secure a three-drug mix for executions and opted to use pentobarbital for lethal injections.
The court suspended Richard Malad’s law license, effective immediately, after he pleaded guilty Sept. 3 in Morgan Superior Court to operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Level 6 felony.
Authorities say the Westfield man engaged in a scheme by which he made it appear he was teleworking full-time for the Social Security Administration during workdays, when in reality he was earning income working as a home inspector for his personal business.
The legislation by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is one of the most ambitious proposals to remake a high court that has suffered a sharp decline in its public approval after a string of contentious decisions and ethics scandals in recent years.
The new language and replacing of the hazily defined “booster,” which has played a big role in the Indianapolis-based NCAA’s rulebook for decades, is designed to better outline which sort of deals will come under scrutiny under the new rules.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Newsmax has said Smartmatic recently lowered its damages claims by more than $1 billion.
A five-judge panel in the state’s intermediate appeals court in Manhattan quizzed lawyers representing Trump and the New York attorney general’s office during oral arguments in the Republican presidential nominee’s fight to get the Feb. 16 verdict overturned.
Experts say five executions being scheduled within one week is simply an anomaly that resulted from courts or elected officials in individual states setting dates around the same time after inmates exhausted their appeals.
More than 6,000 people have filed claims against Cook in connection with its inferior vena cava filters, which are small, metal, cage-like devices inserted into a vein that returns blood from the lower half of the body to the heart.
The Indiana Supreme Court issued misconduct-related suspension orders this week for an East Chicago attorney and an Indianapolis lawyer.
An Indianapolis man will serve 35 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to the sexual exploitation of a child.
Adams was indicted Thursday on federal charges alleging that he secured bribes from foreign nationals and illegal campaign contributions in exchange for favors that included helping Turkish officials get fire safety approvals for a new diplomatic building in the city.
The successful candidate will succeed Allen Superior Court Judge David Avery, who announced in May that he would retire at the end of this year.
The Republican presidential nominee has given no indication that he plans to attend Thursday’s arguments before a five-judge panel in the state’s mid-level appellate court in Manhattan.
Lawmakers in both chambers are anxious to return to their home states and districts to campaign, smoothing the path for passage of the temporary funding fix. But more arduous fiscal negotiations await them at the end of the year.
An Indianapolis woman was sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison for selling child sexual abuse material through an online chatroom.