The Access to Public Records Act permits the award of attorney’s fees against an intervening private party.
Est. of Short v. Brookville Crossing 4060 LLC, No. 49A02-1112-CT-1128, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., July 31, 2012).
Declines to extend the duty of innkeepers to guests to include instances in which the owner did not have knowledge of a perilous situation.
Cottingham v. State, No. 06S01-1112-CR-703, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2012).
A person who was placed on community corrections home detention prior to July 1, 2010 is not entitled to “good time credit” for the time on home detention.
Smith v. State, No. 49S02-1109-CR-529, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2012).
Rejects defendant’s argument that the Crawford confrontation decision should alter the “substantially trustworthy” standard for the due process confrontation right in a community corrections revocation, and holds that drug screen evidence was shown by affidavit of laboratory supervisor to have met the “substantially trustworthy” test.
Vaughn v. State, No. 45S05-1112-CR-684, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2012).
Trial judge properly refused mistrial motion by defendant who, on being forcibly removed after refusing to cease complaining about defense counsel to the jury, briefly was silenced by the bailiff’s covering his mouth.