The proper sentence to avoid double jeopardy violation, where defendant caused three deaths while operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs and fleeing police, was guilt for one count of Level 3 felony resisting law enforcement causing death; two counts of Level 4 felony operating causing death; and one count of Level 6 felony operating causing serious bodily injury.
Archer v. State, No. 18A-PC-2681, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2019).
The presence of even one biased juror on the jury is a structural error requiring a new trial, and appellate counsel had an obligation to review the entire record of the trial proceedings, including the voir dire transcript.
Pulido v. State, No. 19A-CR-834, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2019).
It is not a crime to simply be intoxicated in public, and to sustain a public intoxication conviction based on personal endangerment, the state must show proof beyond a reasonable doubt and not by merely speculating that the person may be in some future danger.
State v. Fahringer, No. 18A-CR-2985, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2019).
The trial court’s certification of its suppression order for interlocutory appeal was an abuse of its discretion because the State’s request for certification was untimely under App. R. 14(B)(1)(a).
Rainbow Realty Group, Inc. v. Carter, No. 19S-CC-38, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Sept. 13, 2019).
“Rent-to-buy” agreement was not a land-sale contract, but a rental agreement subject to Indiana’s residential landlord-tenant statutes.