Defendant was entitled to credit for pretrial incarceration in connection with cause numbers dismissed in his plea agreement; the parties and court treated the cases as “related.”
Appeals
Luke v. State, No. 15A01-1409-CR-407, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 24, 2016).
Conviction for stalking four victims, based on conduct spanning January 2012 to February 2014, violated actual-evidence double jeopardy principles when defendant had been convicted a month earlier for invasion of privacy committed against three of the same victims for conduct spanning three days in January 2014. The State presented substantial evidence of the three-day course of conduct in the subsequent trial; and both cases alleged a violation of the same previously issued no-contact order.
Hill v. State, No. 20A03-1507-CR-907, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 25, 2016).
Trial court was within its discretion to exclude alleged domestic-battery victim who had recanted her accusation as a defense witness. Error was invited by defendant’s insistence on calling witness, despite State’s and court’s repeated cautions.
Hinton v. State, No. 49A04-1508-CR-1167, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 29, 2016).
Evidence that defendant had arrow “nocked” in his bow was sufficient to establish “endangers a person” element of B-misdemeanor public intoxication.
Cox v. State, No. 29A02-1508-PC-1221, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 29, 2016).
Post-conviction court was required, upon indigent prisoner’s proper request, to forward petition to the State Public Defender’s Office for review. Failure to do so required reversal.