A man convicted of multiple felonies more than 20 years ago can pursue an appeal of his 70-year sentence, a split Indiana Supreme Court has ruled. The majority determined that the delay in the appeal was not the defendant’s fault.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana reversed the denial of a post-conviction relief petition on Tuesday, ordering a new hearing after subpoenas weren’t issued to two attorneys who had worked on the appellant’s case.
An Indiana woman who was convicted of a felony after becoming a victim of human trafficking as a minor has convinced the Court of Appeals of Indiana to reverse a denial for post-conviction relief.
Video from a domestic violence incident at a liquor store would likely not have helped a South Bend man avoid a felony conviction and revocation of his probation, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A Marion County man who learned at his hearing that, contrary to his attorneys’ advice, 10 years of his sentence was non-suspendable will still have to serve his time.
A magistrate judge who granted a litigant’s motion to transfer a PCR case to an elected judge but then failed to do so was protected from the litigant’s subsequent lawsuit against her by absolute judicial immunity, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A man who was a part of a duo that conducted a string of Indianapolis-area Kroger pharmacy robberies in 2016 did not convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that he was wrongly denied a petition for post-conviction relief.
Although neither trial nor appellate counsel proved ineffective in a man’s drug-related case, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed the denial of the defendant’s petition for post-conviction relief after finding he was convicted of a crime he did not actually commit.
A convicted murderer will not be able to appeal the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief after the Court of Appeals of Indiana determined a trial court erred in granting him permission to file a belated appeal.
Despite being “caught at the scene of the crimes,” the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed post-conviction relief for a man who pleaded guilty to burglary based on the advice of an attorney who was hiding the fact that he was planning to resign from the Indiana bar for disciplinary reasons.
An Indianapolis non-lawyer who drafted a petition for post-conviction relief and sentence modification for an inmate has been permanently enjoined from offering or providing legal advice and services.
A Brazil woman won’t get post-conviction relief from the Court of Appeals of Indiana after the panel determined she forfeited her rights to appeal the revocation of her probation because she admitted to violating its terms.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has partially reversed a child molester’s convictions after concluding he received ineffective assistance of counsel at trial.
A man sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of killing his younger brother as a teenager did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel during sentencing, Indiana Supreme Court justices concluded Wednesday.
The Indiana Supreme Court has altered an October opinion reinstating a murder conviction against a defendant convicted as a teen of killing a toddler, granting rehearing to delete its prejudice analysis. The core holding of the opinion, however, remains unchanged.
A Gary man sentenced to death did not “properly file” a post-conviction petition in 2016, and an Indiana Supreme Court order in 2017 to file the deficient PCR petition did not render it proper, the Supreme Court has ruled in response to certified questions from a federal judge.
A split appellate panel has affirmed the denial of a woman’s petition for permission to file a belated notice of appeal of her 30-year sentence, finding she was not an “eligible defendant” because she waived her right to appeal in a plea agreement. But a dissenting judge argued the opposite.
In a 3-2 split, the Indiana Supreme Court has reinstated a murder conviction against a northern Indiana teen convicted in relation to the shooting death of a South Bend toddler. The dissent, however, would have granted post-conviction relief based on deficient counsel performance.
A man who represented himself at his probation revocation hearing for driving without a license hit a roadblock when he tried to go directly to the Indiana Court of Appeals and argue he did not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waive his right to counsel.
Post-conviction relief will not be given to a convicted murderer who accused a prosecutor of suborned perjury and his appellate counsel of being ineffective, the Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed.