A district court properly imposed an enhanced sentence on a man convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm because his three prior burglary convictions in Indiana qualified him for the enhancement, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months — even as he denied wrongdoing.
A former accounting employee for a Carmel-based travel insurance business has been sentenced to almost five years in federal prison after admitting to embezzling more than $2 million from her employer.
A second Muncie man convicted of threatening local judges has been sentenced to five years in prison, Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman announced Saturday.
A man’s convictions on five felony counts of child molesting will stand, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Thursday, but the court reversed a 102-year sentence and remanded for resentencing.
A high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced Wednesday to one year in prison.
A man convicted as a teenager of murder whose sentence has already been reduced from 141 years to 88 years has failed in his most recent bid to obtain another sentence reduction.
A man’s conviction for aggravated vehicular hijacking met the criteria to be classified as a crime of violence for the purposes of a sentence enhancement, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed.
A woman found guilty of killing her ex-boyfriend by poisoning his oatmeal and strangling him failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that her murder conviction should be tossed or that her 100-plus-year sentence is inappropriate.
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 white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death penalty.
A judge has sentenced an Indiana man to 41 years in prison for his role in a 2017 van crash that killed a 6-year-old girl.
Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should pay nearly $1.4 million to cover the legal bills of companies forced to incur expenses when he was prosecuted on insider trading charges.
A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.
A father’s requests for a mistrial or a reduced sentence related to his multiple convictions of sexual abuse against his daughters have failed at the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A judge sentenced a former Muncie police sergeant to 19 months in prison Tuesday for obstructing justice by filing a false report in 2018 to cover up excessive use of force by other officers under his command.
The Indianapolis attorney convicted of two federal misdemeanors for entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 12 months of probation that includes six days of intermittent confinement.
The rape-related convictions that led to a man’s 650-year aggregate sentence will stand, as will the sentence itself, a split Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Monday in a ruling that included a dissent from one judge on the issue of double jeopardy.
A 61-year-old Indianapolis nursing home resident was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in prison for the murder and rape of an 80-year-old invalid last year.
A judge Wednesday sentenced three people to more than 100 years each in prison for the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down during unrest following George Floyd’s murder.