Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is asking legislators to make changes to the state’s civil forfeiture law during the 2011 session. He wants to work with lawmakers to create and pass a bill that establishes a formula on how forfeitures would be distributed and enacts stricter regulations on the use of outside counsel to file civil forfeiture actions on behalf of prosecutors.
The Indiana Attorney General’s Office plans to “zealously defend” 78 prosecutors being sued over civil forfeiture collection practices, meaning the state courts will likely have to analyze not only the merits of that issue but also whether two separate state statutes restrict how Indiana’s top attorney can intervene in this taxpayer-filed qui tam lawsuit.
By the time Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi faces a disciplinary hearing on alleged misconduct about how he publicly discussed pending cases, he’ll have finished his term and will no longer be prosecutor in the state’s largest county.
The Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission argues that a hearing officer’s recommendation of a public reprimand against Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney is inadequate and the elected official should receive a one-year suspension.
A Hamilton County judge has rejected the plea agreement of the former public information officer for Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi.
Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney should be publicly reprimanded for violating four professional conduct rules in his handling of civil forfeiture matters as a private attorney while simultaneously prosecuting those same criminal defendants, according to a hearing officer the Indiana Supreme Court appointed to examine disciplinary charges against the prosecutor.
The two candidates for Marion County prosecutor faced each other at their alma mater, Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, Sept. 29, in a debate sponsored by the Republican Law Coalition, the Democratic Law Society, and the Criminal Law Association of the law school.
Marion County Republican prosecutor candidate Mark Massa and Democratic candidate Terry Curry will discuss their positions on various topics at a debate tomorrow.
A Delaware County judge is claiming that county prosecutor Mark McKinney and a former deputy prosecutor threatened and intimidated
the judge and his wife based on the judge’s ruling on how McKinney handled civil drug forfeitures.
Marion County has a new judge, and that’s created the latest round of musical chairs for the Superior Court and prosecutor’s
office.
Following a car accident in early June, a St. Joseph County deputy prosecutor’s life was dramatically changed.
The Democratic candidate for Gibson County Prosecutor has withdrawn from the race following his indictment on four charges,
including possession of child pornography.
The Elkhart County prosecutor who took on Ford Motor Co. in criminal court in Indiana died Monday morning. Michael A. Cosentino
was 74.
A trial court's determination to discharge a jury at a defendant's second trial wasn't an abuse of discretion,
the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Two former Marion County deputy prosecutors have received public reprimands from the state’s highest court for drunken
driving incidents.
Attorneys from around the state raised more than 50 tons of food through the Attorney General’s annual March Against
Hunger competition.
The FBI is collecting records on an Elkhart real estate deal and an Indianapolis drug case, both involving Marion County Prosecutor
Carl Brizzi and defense attorney Paul Page.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department likely will have to return more than $273,000 in cash seized as part of a
racketeering investigation after the Marion County Prosecutor's Office missed a civil forfeiture deadline.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding an officer's
injury at a 2008 fundraiser for Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi.
An Allen County deputy prosecutor has published her first novel for young adults that, while entirely fiction, includes some
references to issues she has dealt with in her work handling child abuse cases.