Jacobs v. State, No. 49S04-1403-CR-162, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Jan. 8, 2015).
Trial judge properly excluded specific instances of conduct offered to show witness’s untruthfulness.
View ArticleGriesmer v. State, No. 49S04-1408-CR-564, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Mar. 5, 2015).
Entrapment defense failed due to failure to prove alleged criminal conduct was the product of law enforcement action.
View ArticleState v. Cunningham, No. 19S05-1409-CR-599, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Mar. 2, 2015).
Police validly required motorist to submit to a pat-down as a condition for allowing him to get out of his truck during a traffic stop, and the officer’s simple query about a pill bottle detected in...
View ArticleBall State University v. Irons, No. 45S03-1503-DR-134, __N.E.3d __ (Ind.,...
University should not have been added as a supplemental defendant in a woman’s petition to seek postsecondary expenses for her daughter.
View ArticleFirst American Title Ins. Co. v. Robertson, No. 49S04-1311-PL-732, __N.E.3d...
Clarifies conflicting footnote on a Petition for Rehearing.
View ArticleSargent v. State, No. 49D07-1111-MI-44802, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Mar. 24, 2015).
Reverses forfeiture of vehicle on basis that employee detained in her workplace while trying to illegally take employer’s property was not in possession, constructive or otherwise, of her automobile...
View ArticleMyers v. State, No. 76S03-1407-CR-493, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Apr. 8, 2015).
Experts unanimously agreed defendant was legally insane, but other evidence in the record supported the jury’s conclusion that he was not; as it was not shown defendant was given Miranda rights, the...
View ArticlePierce v. State, No. 78S05-1407-CR-460, __ N.E.3d__ (Ind., May 12, 2015).
Because defendant grandfather’s molestations of his granddaughters were sufficiently “connected together” under the joinder statute, he had no right to have the molestation charges severed for trial on...
View ArticleIsom v. State, No. 45S00-0803-DP-125, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 20, 2015).
Murdered person’s family members were not themselves victims of the murders, and accordingly evidence the family members had forgiven the defendant was not mitigation evidence and was properly excluded...
View ArticleBell v. State, No. 25S00-1310-LW-713, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 20, 2015).
Affirms admission of defendant’s custodial interrogation statement, based in part on appellate court’s review of the video recording of the statement.
View ArticleHall v. State, No. 49S05-1412-CR-728, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 2, 2015).
Trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to compel discovery, even if in violation of the Sixth Amendment, was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
View ArticleSistrunk v. State, No. 49S05-1410-CR-654, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. July 30, 2015).
Double jeopardy did not preclude convictions for robbery and criminal confinement.
View ArticleSampson v. State, No. 87S01-1410-CR-684, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., July 30, 2015).
Bar on “vouching” testimony under Evid. R. 704(b) and Hoglund v. State (Ind. 2012) also bars opinion testimony of whether a witness shows “signs or indicators” of having been “coached,” unless...
View ArticleAnderson v. Gaudin, No. 07S01-1505-PL-284, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Sept. 1, 2015).
“[U]nder the Home Rule Act, boards of county commissioners are authorized to amend a fire protection district, even if such amendment dissolves the district.”
View ArticleSharp v. State, No. 20S04-1509-CR-549, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Sept. 18, 2015).
Evidence was insufficient to convict defendants of felony murder in the course of burglarizing a home they thought was unoccupied; they were unarmed and did not engage in any dangerously violent of...
View ArticleLayman v. State, No. 20S04-1509-CR-548, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Sept. 18, 2015).
Evidence was insufficient to convict defendants of felony murder in the course of burglarizing a home they thought was unoccupied; none were armed or engaged in any “dangerously violent or threatening...
View ArticleKnighten v. E. Chicago Housing Authority, No. 45S04-1512-CT-686, __ N.E.3d __...
Genuine issues of material fact on whether employer should be liable under the theory of respondeat superior precluded summary judgment.
View ArticleIn re V.A., No. 02S04-1602-JT-93, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Feb. 18, 2016).
“Father’s unwillingness to live separately from a mentally ill spouse, without more, is an insufficient basis to terminate his parental rights.”
View ArticleWard v. State, No. 49S02-1602-CR-96, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Feb. 19, 2016).
Domestic battery victim’s statements to forensic nurse identifying her attacker were not barred as testimonial hearsay because they were given for “primary purpose” of medical treatment, which includes...
View ArticleBlaize v. State, No. 26S00-1410-LW-771, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., March 1, 2016).
Trial judge’s comments to jury, though perhaps ill-advised, did not vouch for the credibility of the State’s cell-phone tower evidence and undermine Defendant’s alibi defense.
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