Although Putative Father registered as a putative father and filed a petition to establish paternity, Putative Father’s consent to adoption was irrevocably implied because he failed to register as a putative father in a timely fashion.
Poortenga v. State, No. 45A03-1709-CR-2148, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 10, 2018).
Evidence of an individual’s alcohol concentrate equivalent is relevant to the question of whether an individual was intoxicated, regardless of whether the individual’s alcohol concentrate equivalent was more or less than 0.08.
Wirthlin v. State, No. 24A01-1711-CR-2662, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 11, 2018).
Defendant’s signing of documents that include a waiver of counsel do not fulfill the trial court’s responsibility to ensure a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver.
Weida v. State, No. 79S02-1711-CR-00687, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., April 12, 2018).
The prior version of Sex Offender Special Condition 26, providing a ban on using the internet, is unreasonable since it does not reasonably relate to probationer’s rehabilitation and protecting the public.
Roumbos v. Vazanellis, No. 45S03-1710-CT-635,__ N.E.3d __ (Ind., April 12, 2018).
In a legal malpractice case, defendants failed to establish, as a matter of law, that plaintiff would not have succeeded in her underlying premises-liability claim; it is a material-factual dispute that the designated evidence establishes that various wires on a hospital-room floor and the risks they pose would be apparent to a reasonable person.