If a proposed medical malpractice complaint is filed before the Indiana Department of Insurance without filing fees, it can be treated as unfiled until the fees are paid, or it can be treated as filed and a show cause order can be issued to the plaintiffs that they must pay the fee “in short order.”
Honeycutt v. State, No. 92A04-1203-CR-149, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 5, 2012).
Assuming a defendant can waive the right to have additional charges dismissed under the Successive Prosecution Statute, this defendant, who pled guilty after waiving counsel and being advised additional charges might be filed, did not waive the right as he was not aware of his rights under the Statute and was not represented by counsel.
Wilson v. State, No. 29A02-1202-CR-88, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 6, 2012).
Trial court did not abuse discretion by excluding evidence of Department of Toxicology Laboratory audits of tests performed from 2007 t0 2009, on the basis that defendant’s test was performed in 2011 when “different procedures were executed by different analysts serving under a different Director more than 1 ½ years beyond the chronological scope of the audits.”
Dowell v. State, No. 09A05-1201-CR-36, __ N.E.2d__ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 27, 2012).
Jury Rules’ “leeway” for assisting a deliberating jury does not permit giving a supplemental instruction on accomplice liability by means of a note to jurors, instead of rereading all instructions in open court.
F.D. v. Ind. Dept of Family Svcs., No. 82A01-1109-CT-432, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 30, 2012).
There is no private right of action for failure to report child abuse under Ind. Code § 31-33-18-4.