To be classified as a serious violent felon, a defendant must have been convicted of a statutory listed felony. If a defendant’s qualifying felony conviction is reduced to a misdemeanor by virtue of the AMS statute, a defendant would no longer qualify as a serious violent felon.
Appeals
Salmon v. Tafelski, No. 23A-CT-2173, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 17, 2024).
Where a remedy is available and adequate under the probate code, the heir of a decedent who died intestate does not have the authority to maintain an independent claim for tortious interference with an inheritance outside the probate estate.
Campbell v. Campbell, No. 23A-CT-2178, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 8, 2024).
While domestic violence is of general public interest, where the allegations concern private conduct by private individuals and attract no public interest on their own, the anti-SLAPP defense for a defamation claim does not apply.
Brown v. State, No. 23A-CR-330, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 10, 2024).
A twenty-one-year-old falls into the jurisdictional gap our Indiana Supreme Court identified in D.P. and Neukam. While statutes that became effective on July 1, 2023, cured this jurisdictional gap, retroactive application of these statutes violate a defendant’s right under the United States Constitution to be free of ex post facto laws.
Converging Capital, LLC v. Steglich, No. 23A-CC-2854, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 1, 2024).
There is no limitations period for the initiation of proceedings supplemental.