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Diaz v. State, No. 20S05–0911–PC–521. __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Sept. 29, 2010)

October 7, 2010 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: R. Shepard, Supreme

Post-conviction Spanish translation expert’s chart of translation errors at guilty plea hearing was a demonstrative exhibit erroneously excluded as hearsay. As post-conviction proceeding evidence did not reveal whether guilty plea and sentencing hearings’ Spanish translation was accurate, post-conviction court is directed to commission its own translation of the hearings and rehear evidence.

State v. Hobbs, No. 19S01-1001-CR-10, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Sept. 30, 2010)

October 7, 2010 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: F. Sullivan, Supreme, T. Boehm

While defendant was being arrested in the restaurant where he worked, a dog sniff alert for drugs in his car parked in the restaurant lot justified a warrantless search of the car under the “automobile exception.”

State v. Lucas, No. 91A05-1003-CR-247, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 30, 2010)

October 7, 2010 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: Appeals, N. Vaidik

Portable breath test mouthpiece is not a foreign substance which would invalid a subsequent Datamaster blood alcohol content test.

Long v. State, No. 41A04-0912-CR-743, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 30, 2010)

October 7, 2010 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: Appeals, E. Najam, J. Kirsch

Evidence raised sufficient inference that purchaser under lease-to-purchase contract never intended to pay, so that proof purchaser took furnishings when he moved out sufficed, with intent inference, to prove crime of theft.

Konopasek v. State, No. 25A03-1003-CR-155, __N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 30, 2010)

October 7, 2010 Filed Under: Criminal Tagged With: Appeals, M. May

“[D]efendant’s acknowledgement he is on probation, without more,” does not “’open the door’ to extensive and potentially-damaging character evidence about the nature of his prior offenses or the length of his prior sentences.”

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