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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.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Jermaine Garnes v. State of Indiana
23A-CR-606
Criminal. Affirms Jermaine Garnes’ murder conviction and 65-year prison sentence in Tippecanoe Superior Court. Finds the trial court did not abuse its discretion in declaring a mistrial in Garnes’s first trial and his second trial did not violate double jeopardy protections. Also finds his sentence is not inappropriate in light of Garnes’s character and the nature of his offense.
The state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that a Clark County man knowingly exerted unauthorized control over a motor vehicle and provided sufficient evidence for his felony auto theft conviction, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed Monday.
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law students finished in the top 16 of the Wagner Moot Court Competition at New York Law School in New York City at the beginning of this month.
A former East Chicago councilman failed to prove his 2016 firing was in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment free speech rights, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Friday.
A feud between the General Assembly and the Indiana Gaming Commission escalated late Friday when lawmakers approved language blocking the commission from getting more money without their approval.
Crash your rental car, or get hit by a truck? Legislation headed to Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk would bar you from using a commercial vehicle’s outdated safety equipment against the lessor in a civil lawsuit.
After multiple iterations and weeks of debate, a bill to define and ban antisemitism at Indiana’s public education institutions cleared the General Assembly on Friday and now awaits a signature from the governor.
The Indiana Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Tuesday for a case involving a woman who was found guilty of two counts of neglect of a dependent after she was seen transporting her two sunburnt infants in a milk crate on a bicycle.
Indiana Court of Appeals
M.T. v. D.W. (mem. dec.)
23A-AD-1328
Adoption. Reverses the Johnson Superior Court’s judgment denying M.T. grandmother’s petition to adopt. Finds the trial court’s decision was based on an erroneous reading of the Consent Statute. Remands to the trial court with instructions to enter factual findings as to whether grandmother proved by clear and convincing evidence that D.W., the child’s biological father, failed without justifiable cause to communicate with the child when able to do so or knowingly failed to provide for child’s care and support when able to do so.
An Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law student has been awarded the 2023 Helen W. Nies Memorial Scholarship from the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Donald Lee Moss, 62, of Elizabethtown, and James Link Behymer, 61, of Hope, were charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
Dwayne Wright was sentenced for the July 2021 shooting death of Laura Gentry, who also suffered burns on over 64% of her body after Wright set her on fire following the shooting.
President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.
Fabricated images created by artificial intelligence, which were highlighted in a recent BBC investigation, provide further evidence to support warnings that the use of AI-generated imagery will only increase as the November general election approaches.
Curtis Logan Tate, 32, Jeffersonville, struck at least two officers with the baton that he brought to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, hitting one in the hand and the other repeatedly on the helmet.
Holders of four statewide offices will soon be eligible to carry handguns in the Statehouse and the broader state capitol complex property.
A bill that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being unavailable in the United States is quickly gaining traction in the House as lawmakers voice concerns about the potential for the platform to surveil and manipulate Americans.
The Indiana House and Senate both moved priority bills, with a dwindling number of measures left to finalize before an anticipated adjournment on Friday.
Expect to see happy hours and the option to add a cocktail to your carry-out restaurant order as soon as July, under finalized legislation approved Thursday. It now goes to the governor.
