If you’re wanting to find out how prosecutor’s offices and law enforcement are doing in handling a growing amount of digital evidence, criminal defense attorney John Tompkins figures you could get 92 different answers — one for each of Indiana’s counties.
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CaseLines, a digital evidence portal from Thomson Reuters, is being piloted in four courts in Hamilton County presided over by Circuit Judge Paul Felix and Superior Judges Jonathan Brown, Michael Casati and William Hughes.
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Lake Circuit Court Judge Marissa McDermott recently discovered a pair of guns tied to a famous murder in The Region more than 50 years ago.
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A man with a mental disability who has for years claimed he was wrongfully convicted of an Elkhart murder and who spent more than 15 years behind bars can proceed to a new trial after the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a post-conviction relief order vacating his murder conviction.
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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.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana declined to reverse a man’s firearm-related convictions, determining that his challenges to the admission of evidence failed.
A trial court did not err in excluding and redacting portions of a journal from a college student in a case involving another student who was charged with sexual battery, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
The man convicted of killing Southport Police Lt. Aaron Allan has lost his arguments on appeal that due process violations and insufficient evidence undercut his murder conviction.
The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls is expected to be delayed after his defense attorneys withdrew from the case Thursday amid questions about security of evidence.
The admission of a screenshot of a defendant’s texts with a contact during his trial on a drug-related conspiracy charge was harmless and only one piece of an “overwhelming” amount of evidence supporting his conviction, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
A man convicted of neglect against his girlfriend’s infant daughter has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that either insufficient evidence or the Indiana Constitution require reversal of his Level 1 felony conviction.
A 911 call placed by a witness who didn’t actually testify was properly admitted, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed, also finding sufficient evidence.
A trial court’s decision to allow a jury to view four previously viewed exhibits in a felony robbery trial did not constitute fundamental error, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
Lawyers for Donald Trump were back in court Monday as a federal judge considers radically conflicting proposals for a trial date in the case accusing him of working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A man convicted of breaking into an elderly woman’s home and severely beating her could not convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that his felony convictions or sentence should be overturned.
A man convicted of setting fire to his sister’s property failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that the trial court erred in denying his request for a mistrial or in admitting “silent witness” evidence.
All federal litigants have a legal duty to preserve evidence that might be relevant, whether to their own or another party’s claims or defenses. Though it’s a seemingly straightforward obligation, parties frequently accuse one another of breaching this duty.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed a man’s conviction for dealing resulting in death, finding the trial court didn’t abuse its discretion in admitting text messages from the victim’s phone as evidence.
In an opinion covering less than two pages, the Court of Appeals of Indiana summarily affirmed a woman’s drug-related convictions, finding she could not challenge the admission of evidence because she explicitly stated at trial that she did not object.
Non-evidentiary allegations were properly struck from evidentiary submissions in a medical malpractice case, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
A trial court didn’t err or violate a defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights in an attempted murder case when it denied his objection to a jury instruction and his request to cross-examine two people that allegedly used a racial slur in reference to him.
A trio of men linked to an Indianapolis drug trafficking ring failed to sway the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, as the appellate court affirmed Monday a lower court’s convictions and sentencing on methamphetamine distribution-related charges.
A trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting photographic evidence and expert testimony in a case involving a woman who slipped on ice in a Menards parking lot. But the Court of Appeals reversed a multimillion-dollar verdict.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana rejected a man’s claims that the state committed “trial by ambush” by allowing testimony and video evidence that showed him taking two cases containing Glock handguns.