Probable cause to obtain a search warrant to use thermal imaging technology must be based on evidence that corroborates a tip that criminal activity has occurred or is occurring at a place, and not solely on the training and experience of law enforcement officers.
Criminal
McGuire v. State, No. 09S02-1707-CR-491, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 21, 2017).
Trial court must resentence defendant who was sentenced to forty years imprisonment after entering a guilty plea to one count of felony child molesting when the correct statutory sentencing range was twenty to fifty years, not thirty to fifty years.
Miller v. State, No. 28S04-1707-CR-468, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., July 12, 2017).
The correct legal standard to apply in an attempted murder case is whether the defendant had a “specific intent to kill.”
Black v. State, No. 09A04-1610-CR-2312, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 7, 2017).
The same bodily injury inflicted on a victim of a robbery may not be used to enhance the penalty on both a conviction of conspiracy to commit robbery and a conviction of robbery.
Shinnock v. State, No. 18S05-1706-CR-429, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., June 27, 2017).
Independent, circumstantial evidence that was the crime was committee was sufficient for corpus delicti evidence required to have a confession admitted.