The Indiana Supreme Court will hear a case in which a dissenting Court of Appeals judge worried that the majority’s finding would head toward a bright-line rule regarding the officer safety exception to the warrant requirement in the context of a car on the side of the road.
The Indiana Supreme Court took six cases last week, including two cases of first impression before the Indiana Court of Appeals involving attorney’s fees under the Adult Wrongful Death Statute and the modification of a felony conviction to a misdemeanor.
The Indiana Supreme Court took a case from the Indiana Court of Appeals involving strict foreclosure in which the lower appellate court adopted the reasoning from a federal case to determine priority rights on liens.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a case in which a defendant challenged his sentence following his guilty plea to Class B felony burglary and admitting to being a habitual offender.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to four cases Sept. 17, including one involving translated transcripts presented to a jury in a drug case.
The Indiana Supreme Court accepted transfer of three cases last week, including a case in which the Indiana Court of Appeals lengthened a man’s sentence.
The Indiana Supreme Court has accepted the case in which the Indiana Court of Appeals split in reversing a man’s Class A
felony attempted murder conviction.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted three transfers and dismissed one case during its conference late last week, when the justices
examined a total 35 cases that were before them for possible transfer.
The Indiana Supreme Court is considering a case where a St. Joseph County juvenile judge has declared unconstitutional three
statutes involving child placements, a controversial issue that’s pitted many within the state judiciary against the
Indiana Department of Child Services for the past two years.
The Indiana Supreme Court will rule on the issue of whether a defendant has to prove at a probation revocation hearing for
failing to support dependents his or her inability to pay the support.
The Indiana Supreme Court considered 13 appeals during the past week, denying them all and rejecting a case that it had previously
agreed to hear.
In order to increase efficiency and reduce administrative redundancies at the appellate clerk’s office, attorneys and law firms will no longer receive weekly e-mails about cases the Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to consider.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer Thursday to three cases involving a murder conviction, a request for post-conviction
relief, and the appointment of counsel for a mother involved in a termination proceeding.
The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to consider cases that involve a trial court's handling of a mentally ill murder defendant, and whether the First Amendment protects a volunteer firefighter's e-mails about the township department's financial situation.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted three transfers Wednesday, including a case of first impression on sentence enhancements.
The Indiana Supreme Court will decide whether the state's voter identification law violates the Indiana Constitution.
Two civil cases got the go ahead from the Indiana Supreme Court this week to move up for consideration by the state's justices.
The state's highest court has decided to take a case in which a defendant questioned whether the appellate review of a sentence should consider the suspended portion of a sentence as qualitatively different from the executed portion when determining if a sentence is inappropriate.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer today to decide whether casinos can ban card counters. The high court also granted transfer to five cases Thursday, including a case of first impression regarding post-retirement health-insurance premiums.
The Indiana Supreme Court was split in its decision to deny transfer in a case in which a defendant claimed misconduct by the prosecutor when he read a poem about drugs during voir dire.