Although a complaint for declaratory judgment could not be decided by an ALJ, upon judicial review, one could be reviewed by the trial court judge without a separate complaint being filed.
State v. Fox, No. 21A-CR-2445, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 6, 2022).
A home detention contract with broad language stating that a defendant waives “rights under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution, regarding search and seizure of your person or effects” unambiguously informs a defendant that he is waiving his right against search and seizure absent any degree of suspicion.
Bunch v. State, No. 21A-CR-2278, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 6, 2022).
The process for having a federal right to possess firearms restored following a conviction of a crime of domestic violence is tied to the state procedure for having said right restore; that procedure in Indiana is conducted pursuant to Ind. Code § 35-47-4-7.
Tippecanoe School Corp. v. Reynolds, No. 21A-CT-1482, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 7, 2022).
Negligent supervision in sports is not a separate cause of action; an analysis of a coach’s individual actions related to supervising her athletes and the choices made are subsumed by a review of whether that coach was intentional or reckless in her conduct.
Yeary v. State, No. 21A-CR-1080, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 7, 2022).
The plain language of the drug-induced homicide statute, Ind. Code § 35-42-1-1.5, requires the State to prove the defendant’s conduct is both the proximate cause and the actual cause of the victim’s death, and while the jury is expected to rely on its collective common sense and knowledge acquired through everyday experiences, the trial court has a duty to define for the jury words of a technical or legal meaning normally not understood by jurors unversed in the law.