“By ordering that all contact between Mother and Child cease, the trial court is effectively ending that relationship until Child is a legal adult…Whether or not this is technically a final judgment, it certainly operates as one.”
Appeals
Ind. Bureau of Motor Vehicles v. Gurtner, No. 50A03-1407-MI-256, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 26, 2015).
Trial court was without authority to grant petition for judicial review for a suspended driver’s license for failure to provide proof of financial responsibility following an automobile accident.
Mathews v. State, No. 73A04-1406-CR-288, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 13, 2015).
Defendant waived his right of confrontation when he did not attend the victim’s trial deposition, conducted via Skype when she was in Louisiana, after he had been invited to attend.
Wise v. State, No. 49A02-1406-CR-408, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 13, 2015).
Victim’s handheld video camera video of playback of cellphone video was properly admitted under the “silent witness” theory and its admission as evidence did not violate the defendant’s confrontation rights.
Bickford v. State, No. 62A01-1409-CR-389, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 13, 2015).
Owner’s voluntary surrender of neglected animals precluded use of statute requiring payment to a shelter for care of impounded animals, but payment for animals’ care was properly ordered under the general restitution statute.