Police officer properly conducted an IDACS search to establish a reasonable suspicion that the driver was operating a vehicle with an improper license plate, and whether there was actually a violation is irrelevant to the constitutionality of the stop.
Hoak v. State, No. 19S-CR-17, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Jan. 11, 2019).
Trial court should have determined if defendant with multiple drug-related court contacts was eligible for substance abuse treatment and placement in Community Corrections.
Livingston v. State, No. 18S-CR-623, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., December 28, 2018).
Utilizing evidence based best practices for rehabilitation in a community setting and avoiding the use of scarce prison space for nonviolent offenders, the defendant’s sentence of thirty years in the DOC was reduced to twenty-three years in community corrections.
Trimnell v. State, No. 18A-CR-987, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 31, 2018).
Drug dealer who supplied drug that eventually attributed to the death of his customer could not be charged under the felony murder statute when his conduct was not the mediate or immediate cause of death.
Moriarity v. Ind. Dept. of Natural Resources, No. 18S-PL-00296, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Jan. 3, 2019).
Dept. of Natural Resources had jurisdiction over dam on private property based on its location in, on, or along a stream of Indiana.