Property owners have no duty for damage done by tenant’s dog.
City of Fort Wayne v. Parrish, No. 02A05-1408-CT-359, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 19, 2015).
A violation of the Seatbelt Act may not be used to prove contributory negligence.
T.S. v. State, No. 49A02-1410-JV-739, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 11, 2015).
Judicial estoppel does not apply against the state in juvenile delinquency proceedings.
Pierce v. State, No. 78S05-1407-CR-460, __ N.E.3d__ (Ind., May 12, 2015).
Because defendant grandfather’s molestations of his granddaughters were sufficiently “connected together” under the joinder statute, he had no right to have the molestation charges severed for trial on the basis they were joined only because they were “of the same or similar character.”
Carr v. State, No. 45A04-1409-CR-456, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 12, 2015).
Savings statute for the revised penal code prohibited application of the revised sentence modification statute, which does not require prosecutorial consent to a modification petition, to a petition to modify for a crime committed and sentenced prior to the July 1, 2014 effective date of the modification statute’s revision.