Reverses motion to suppress evidence found in a search of defendant’s vehicle and inculpatory statements that defendant made to police.
Criminal
Leedy v. State, No. 49A04-1303-CR-102, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 26, 2013).
Trial court properly found defendant with brain injury incompetent and committed him to the Division of Mental Health and Addiction (“DMHA”) pursuant to Ind. Code § 35-36-3-1.
Russell v. State, No. 49S04-1311-CR-741, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Nov. 12, 2013).
Trial court did not err in partially bifurcating trial on serious violent felon charge.
Washington v. State, No. 49S02-1212-CR-669, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Nov. 12, 2013).
Indiana Pattern Jury Instruction on defense of another correctly stated the law.
Williams v. State, No. 67A01-1302-CR-87, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 13, 2013).
Evidence of numerous acts of defendant’s sexual intercourse with his daughter left “no reasonable possibility” that the jury relied upon the same acts in finding defendant guilty of incest and child molesting, so that Indiana double jeopardy protection did not prohibit convictions for both offenses.