Currently, there are two courthouses in Elkhart County, 11 miles apart. After careful planning and much due diligence, what is now two will soon become one.
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Andrew Royer has been granted a new trial after a special judge determined his 2005 trial was tainted by false evidence and coercive investigative techniques that exploited his mental disability. But the possibility of a retrial remains.
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Bristol-based Bravo Trailers, LLC, allegedly fell behind on mortgage payments to the First State Bank of Middlebury and faced utility shut-offs amid subzero temperatures.
State lawmakers cut nine judicial posts in four counties and added 8 judicial jobs in four others.
The Indiana Supreme Court has appointed Elkhart Superior Court Judge Andrew Hicks to serve as one of the state’s commercial court judges.
Gov. Eric Holcomb has appointed Elizabeth A. Bellin to serve as judge in Elkhart Superior Court 4.
The Indiana Supreme Court has suspended former Elkhart County deputy prosecutor Benjamin Mattingly as part of a conditional disciplinary order.
An Elkhart County man does not have to register as a sex offender for a crime that doesn’t fall under Indiana’s registration requirement just because he registered for it in Virginia, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a Friday reversal.
A judge pro tempore has been appointed to the Elkhart Superior Court after the previous judge was confirmed to the federal bench.
With former Elkhart Superior Judge Gretchen S. Lund’s recent confirmation as a federal judge, the state is now looking to fill her position in Elkhart County.
A man convicted of murder failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the absence of a full competency hearing and the admission of certain evidence undermined his conviction.
A woman with intellectual disabilities whose sentence for child molesting was already cut in half failed in her bid to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that she was entitled to post-conviction relief.
The city of Elkhart and several former law enforcement officers have agreed to pay $11,725,000 to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit filed by a man with an intellectual disability who was exonerated from a murder conviction after nearly 17 years in prison.
A trial court properly denied a juvenile’s motion for relief from judgment on two delinquencies adjudications that he admitted to, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
A man convicted of drug charges could not convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that meth-related evidence was improperly admitted at his trial, but he did prevail on his argument that there was insufficient evidence to support a marijuana conviction.
It’s been seven years since the Indiana Supreme Court issued its order adopting Criminal Rule 26, a mandate that set out to improve pretrial release practices across the state.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has ordered the reversal of a man’s drug-related convictions after determining that the officer who arrested him was not wearing a “distinctive” uniform, making the underlying traffic stop invalid.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has once again declined to order an Elkhart County judge to recuse herself from a post-conviction case based on allegations of prejudice stemming from previous wrongful-conviction proceedings.
Plaintiffs claiming they were injured by steroid injections are not entitled to summary judgment on their state or federal prescription-law claims, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
Indiana law didn’t back up a man’s contention that a trial court should expunge Indiana Department of Child Services records substantiating his molestation of his sisters, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
A man whose motions to change the judge in his post-conviction relief case have been denied failed to demonstrate the judge would be biased against him, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled in affirming a lower court’s decision.
The convictions of three men in an Amish community on misdemeanor intimidation charges were not barred by the church autonomy doctrine and were supported by sufficient evidence, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Thursday.