Post-conviction court erred in finding that defendant received effective assistance of trial counsel; there was no serious dispute that counsel (now deceased) had failed prior to trial to communicate a guilty-plea offer that would have reduced defendant’s sentence exposure to about half of what he actually received.
Appeals
D.A. v. State, No. 48A02-1504-MI-215, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. Dec. 31, 2015).
Trial court, having expunged defendant’s convictions, should also have granted defendant’s request to expunge the records of a civil forfeiture proceeding that arose from the same facts underlying the convictions; expungement statute was ambiguous on that point, but as a remedial statute must be liberally construed.
Collip v. Ratts, No. 49A05-1501-CT-1, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 31, 2015).
Doctors have a duty of reasonable care to a nurse practitioner’s patients in fulfilling the doctor’s obligations under a collaborative practice agreement between the doctor and the nurse practitioner.
State v. J.S., No. 16A04-1503-MI-89, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 28, 2015).
Trial court could not prevent the Bureau of Motor Vehicles from disclosing expunged OWI conviction to Commercial Driver’s License Information System. (At issue is the expungement law effective July 1, 2013, which has since been amended.)
Storch v. Provision Living, LLC, No. 49A02-1505-CT-352, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 23, 2015).
Estate is entitled to an award of attorney fees for a tort claim pursuant to a contract awarding the prevailing party attorney fees for “any controversy, claim, or dispute between the parties hereto, arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach thereof.”