The trial judge has broad discretion to rehabilitate jurors and deny for-cause challenges. The trial judge properly denied for-cause challenges after asking the prospective jurors if they could set aside personal biases, beliefs, and prejudices and follow instructions as given.
Appeals
Blankenship v. Duke, No. 19A-GU-518, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 9, 2019).
When a trial court orders parenting time in a guardianship case, it cannot allow the guardian to determine the parent’s parenting time with their child.
Davis v. State, No. 19A-CR-631, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 31, 2019).
Trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant’s request for an attorney made during the bench trial more than one year after affirming his request for self-representation.
Indiana Land Trust Co. v. XL Investment Properties, LLC, No. 18A-MI-2150, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 30, 2019).
For a tax sale, auditor is still charged with knowledge of the contents of its records and is constitutionally obligated to search those records.
Edwards v. Edwards, No. 19A-DR-509, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 30, 2019).
Although the US Supreme Court opinion Howell v. Howell holds that state courts are not permitted to order a veteran to indemnify a divorced spouse for the loss of the spouse’s portion of the veteran’s retirement pay caused by the veteran’s waiver of retirement pay to receive service-related disability benefit, the trial court had subject-matter jurisdiction to enter an order on veteran’s retirement pay prior to that opinion.