Incurred risk is not a defense to medical malpractice based on negligence or lack of informed consent; plaintiff’s consents to prior surgeries were admissible to counter her lack-of-informed-consent claim to the extent that claim was based on failure to inform her of typical risks in the procedure.
Davis v. State, No. 45A03-0808-CR-407, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 11, 2009)
Search based on a warrant based in part on information obtained in violation of the 4th Amendment was upheld when the remaining information for the warrant was not illegally obtained and sufficed to show probable cause.
Brown v. State, No. 34A05-0812-CR-716, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 12, 2009)
Plurality agrees defendant receives no sentence credit for period he was arrested on charges unrelated to the one he pled guilty to and which were dismissed; plurality agrees defendant receives credit from time he was arrested on charge he pled guilty to.
Dowdell v. City of Jeffersonville, No. 10A04-0811-CV-676, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 9, 2009)
Jeffersonville ordinance that prohibited convicted sex offenders from entering public parks was unconstitutional as applied under the prohibition on ex post facto laws in the Indiana Constitution.
Montejo v. Arizona, No. 07-1529, __ U.S. __ (May 26, 2009)
Overrules Michigan v. Jackson holding that once a suspect has claimed the Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer, any later waiver of that right during police questioning would be invalid, unless the suspect initiates communication with the officers.