A juvenile court must waive jurisdiction to adult court if a felony conviction or nontraffic misdemeanor is imposed at any time before the State files its motion for waiver.
Appeals
Jones v. State, No. 49A05-1606-CR-1433, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 2, 2017).
At probation revocation hearing, trial court is not required to ask a defendant if he wants to make a statement, but must allow one to be made if requested.
Pilkington v. Pilkington, No. 18A02-1605-PL-1086, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 2, 2017).
Trial court had subject matter jurisdiction to decide whether beneficiary interest in the trust was extinguished by bankruptcy.
Sams v. State, No. 67A01-1604-CR-814, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 21, 2017).
Where an item searched would not have been the target of a well-regulated inventory search, and would not have been searched at all but for the criminal suspicions of the searching officer, the search is pretextual and unreasonable and an item discovered is inadmissible.
Brantley v. State, No. 49A04-1606-CR-1401, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 24, 2017).
State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant acted under sudden heat to sustain a conviction for voluntary manslaughter.