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Jailed Fort Wayne attorney gets interim suspension for embezzlement convictions

June 24, 2019

A Fort Wayne attorney currently serving a six-month embezzlement sentence in federal prison has been suspended from the practice of law in Indiana effective immediately following his felony convictions. The Indiana Supreme Court issued an order of interim suspension against Randall B. Stiles, who was sentenced in March to six months behind bars for two counts of felony bankruptcy fraud and one count of misdemeanor failure to file a tax return.

Vanderburgh County man gets 150 years for killing wife, shooting daughters

March 5, 2019

A southwestern Indiana man convicted of killing his wife and shooting his adult twin daughters has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. Clinton Loehrlein learned his sentence Monday after a Vanderburgh County jury last year found the Darmstadt man guilty of murder in the January 2017 slaying of 52-year-old Sherry Loehrlein, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement.

Ex-nursing home CEO wants convictions tossed because of Barnes’ ‘profound conflict of interest’

January 14, 2019

The ringleader in one of the largest corporate-fraud cases in Indiana in recent years is asking a judge to throw out his felony convictions on the grounds that his legal team at the Indianapolis law firm Barnes & Thornburg failed to disclose a “profound conflict of interest.”

Judge’s miscalculation leads to remand for resentencing

August 16, 2018

A judge’s miscalculation of a man’s federal court sentence based on the number of his prior felony convictions prompted the 7^th Circuit Court to remand for resentencing Thursday.

Former NDLS clinic administrator sentenced to seven years

May 29, 2018

Jennifer Ihns, the former administrator for the Clinical Law Center at the University of Notre Dame Law School, will spend two years in the Indiana Department of Correction for embezzling nearly $200,000 from the clinic.

Justices weigh cellphone data privacy rights in 4th Amendment case

December 8, 2016

When people turn on their cellphones, they have a general understanding that some data regarding their whereabouts will be collected. But if a person does not know the extent to which that data is collected, then can the court say that such data was voluntarily released by the person, or is there an expected right to privacy?

COA discusses jury-selection procedures

January 1, 2010

Despite being sensitive to a defendant's concerns about having no African-Americans included in his jury pool, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed his felony convictions of altering an original identification number and auto theft.

High court defines ‘briefly’

January 1, 2010

In two cases involving a statutory defense to possession or dealing of drugs within 1,000 feet of a school, the Indiana Supreme Court defined the term "briefly" and ruled on whether the defendants were briefly near schools when they committed their crimes.

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