Trial court is to determine whether defendant should receive educational credit time earned while serving a sentence of home detention.
Appeals
Campbell v. State, No. 89A04-1312-CR-634, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 2, 2014).
When defendant violated terms of plea agreement by refusing to testify against co-defendants, the State was properly permitted to withdraw from the agreement despite its having been accepted by the trial court.
Marley v. State, No. 15A01-1403-CR-127, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 11, 2014).
Based on legislative policy in savings clauses for new penal code, determines not to consider new code penalties in evaluating appropriateness of sentence under Appellate Rule 7(B).
Layman v. State, No. 20A04-1310-CR-518, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2014).
Multiple opinion decision affirms felony murder convictions of waived juveniles when the death resulted from burglary victim’s shooting of defendants’ accomplice.
Hall v. State, No. 49A05-1312-CR-614, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 4, 2014).
Trial court erred in excluding phone call transcript containing information about alleged molesting victim’s apparent false accusation of nonconsensual sex with another individual; also holds trial court erred in not compelling a party to the phone call to answer deposition questions about the call.