The transcript contained no admissions by the probationer of the alleged probation violation, and without such admissions the revocation without a hearing would be fundamental error, but as there was a notation in the CCS that an admission was made and this notation was presumptively true, the probationer failed to demonstrate fundamental error.
Criminal
Boston v. State, No. 32A01-1008-CR-421, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Apr. 13, 2011)
2010 amendment of statute on required methods for blood draws to test for intoxication is remedial, so the amendment, as an evidence rule, applied to the method used to draw Boston’s blood in his OWI prosecution, when the amendment was enacted after the blood test but took effect prior to the trial.
Mitchell v. State, No. 49A02-1003-CR-340, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Apr. 6, 2011)
Traditional rule that a post-conviction court may not take judicial of the transcript in the original proceedings appears to have been ended by the 2010 amendment to Evidence Rule 201(b)(5) allowing judicial notice of “records of a court of this state,” but since petitioner did not request judicial notice and court did not sua sponte take it the transcript was not in evidence in the post-conviction proceeding.
Dawson v. State, No. 49S02-1103-CR-176, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., March 29, 2011)
P-C.R. 2 does not allow belated appeals from orders revoking probation.
Griffin v. State, No. 49A02-1007-CR-774, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 30, 2011)
Evidence that marijuana blunt was in plain view on center console between driver and defendant passenger, coupled with testimony of strong marijuana smell in vehicle, was sufficient to prove defendant constructively possessed the marijuana; distinguishes Gray v. State.