While defendant showed obnoxious disrespect for authority, her conviction for resisting law enforcement was reversed because strong, powerful, violent means were not shown to be used to evade a law enforcement official’s rightful exercise of his duties.
Granger v. State, No. 18A-CR-1494, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 31, 2018).
Marijuana grinder is not drug paraphernalia. Paraphernalia is defined as an instrument or device that is used to put or insert a controlled substance into the body and a grinder can only be used to prepare marijuana for ingestion by another means, such as by a joint, a pipe, or a bong.
Weisheit v. State, No. 10S00-1507-PD-413, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 7, 2018).
Defendant’s conviction of the murders of two children, arson, death penalty sentence affirmed; finding that although mistakes were made by trial and appellate counsel most of them did not rise to the level of deficient performance under the Strickland decision, and defendant in any case failed to demonstrate that he was prejudiced.
In re Adoption of L.G.K., No. 18A-AD-371, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 31, 2018).
Trial court properly granted unregistered putative father’s motion for relief from adoption when mother fraudulently claimed that she did not know the identity of child’s father.
Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Co. v. Johnson, No. 18S-CT-548, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 1, 2018).
Misuse serves as a complete bar to recovery in a products liability action because of the inclusion of comparative fault principles in the Indiana Products Liability Act.