Vaughan gained national attention while representing the Kokomo teenager after he was barred from attending school due to his AIDS diagnosis.
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A pilot partnership between Indiana Legal Services and a Tippecanoe County court is providing in-court assistance to pro se litigants in divorce cases. Attorneys sit down with litigants behind closed doors, gather the necessary child-support information, fill out the paperwork and send parents back into the courtroom.
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Mindi Metzinger was charged with three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of assisting a criminal in connection to the plot to kill Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer earlier this year.
Attorney Cassidy Laux joins the firm after serving in the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office, where he both founded and led the office’s Major Crimes Unit as division chief.
Cass County Superior Court Judge Lisa Swaim, who was appointed to serve as a special judge in the matter, issued the order after defense counsel published a survey on social media to gauge public attitudes toward the defendants.
One of the men accused of conspiring to shoot Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer has asked the court for a special prosecutor, claiming the current prosecutor’s professional relationship with the judge interferes with his ability to fairly work the case, according to court documents.
Tippecanoe County Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer returned to the courtroom on Tuesday to swear in a newly appointed Superior Court judge.
Investigators allege Neveah Bell, 23, helped orchestrate the plan to kill Judge Steven Meyer.
Senate Bill 291 would replace the existing Supreme Court Sheriff model with a Supreme Court Marshal and Court of Appeals Marshal system.
Gov. Mike Braun’s appointees will take roles in Howard and Tippecanoe counties and in West Lafayette.
Tippecanoe Superior Court 2, over which Judge Steven Meyer presides, has also received a temporary appointment.
The man accused of shooting the judge and his wife was closely tied to a high-ranking gang member who was scheduled to stand trial before the judge just two days after the shooting, according to a probable cause affidavit.
A Tippecanoe County judge who was injured in a shooting at his home Sunday afternoon is speaking out for the first time on how he and his wife are recovering.
No arrests were reported in the case as of early Monday afternoon. Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski said every available resource is being used to find whomever is responsible.
The Indiana Tax Court denied a county assessor’s attempt to represent his office in an appeal before the court, citing his lack of legal expertise as a risk of a non-attorney representing others and his use of a fictitious citation.
A representative of the Texas company said he believes the debt will be discharged through bankruptcy.
He is the 11th judge to be appointed to Indiana’s commercial courts. Other commercial court judges are located in Allen, Floyd, Elkhart, Hamilton, Lake, Madison, Marion, St. Joseph, Vanderburgh and Vigo counties.
A Colorado man was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to production of child pornography following months of pursuing a girl in Lafayette.
A trial court correctly declared a mistrial in a murder defendant’s first trial and his second trial did not violate double jeopardy protections, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Monday in upholding a Tippecanoe Superior Court murder sentence.
Concerns about a former trustee accused of theft because she worked out-of-state during COVID should have been handled via a civil action, not a criminal action, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled, vacating the ex-trustee’s 21 theft convictions.
Any error in the admission of Facebook messages that showed evidence of a Lafayette man’s drug deals was harmless, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
At the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office, full workforce capacity would consist of a staff of 29 deputy prosecutors, a chief deputy prosecutor and Vicki Becker, the county’s prosecuting attorney. Becker said her office currently has 18 attorneys.