The trial court properly declined to give defendant’s proposed jury instruction on force, which emphasized particular factual scenarios minimizing other potentially relevant evidence. Trial courts should use the pattern jury instruction on resisting law enforcement by fleeing at 1 Ind. Pattern Jury Instructions—Criminal 5.3000 (4th ed. 2019).
Alcorn v. State, No. 18A-CR-2849, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 28, 2019).
The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it found the county auditor in contempt for having failed to pay the court’s payroll voucher.
Barber v. State, No. 19S-CR-329, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 29, 2019).
A person convicted of child molesting is a statutorily defined as a violent criminal and may not file for sentence modification under Ind. Code 35-38-1-17 after the elapse of 365 days from sentencing without the approval of the prosecuting attorney
Perrill v. Perrill, No. 18A-DN-1616, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 28, 2019).
All essential contractual elements were present in the premarital agreement with or without exhibits identifying excluded property.
In re R.L. No. 18A-JC-2927, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 29, 2019).
Juvenile court erred when it failed to dismiss those claims made by DCS in its 2018 CHINS petition which had already been litigated or which could have been litigated in the 2017 CHINS.