Plaintiff’s status as an undocumented immigrant is relevant to a claim of lost earning capacity.
Appeals
Mannix v. State, No. 49A04-1505-CR-294, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., March 23, 2016).
Chemical test administered over three hours after accident is admissible, but deprives the State of the rebuttable presumption that the results reflect driver’s time-of-accident BAC.
Trial court could not rely solely on elements of one offense to impose greater-than-advisory sentence for the other.
Villaruel v. State, No. 71A03-1506-CR-544, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., March 23, 2016).
Trial court failed to undertake Batson analysis when defense challenged State’s peremptory strike of Hispanic juror; convictions were therefore reversed and remanded for new trial.
Frink v. State, No. 73A05-1507-CR-761, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., March 24, 2016).
Defendant, a former school corporation employee, was not entitled to dismissal of charge of trespassing on corporation property; state presented sufficient facts to disprove that merely having children living in in the school system gave her a “contractual interest” in the school property.
In re D.W., No. 45A03-1507-JC-842, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 24, 2016).
Trial court’s order denying mother’s motion to modify permanency plan was not a final judgment, and so the Court of Appeals lacked subject matter jurisdiction over appeal.