Trial court should have granted defendant’s counsel request for a contempt hearing even though the trial court suspended the sentence and indicated it would reconsider the issue of appointing counsel prior to the compliance hearing.
Appeals
State v. Vanderkolk, No. 79A04-1308-CR-407, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 11, 2014).
Although defendant’s roommate waived his 4th Amendment right as a home detention participant, roommate did not completely waive his 4th Amendment right and the police could not conduct a suspicionless search of defendant’s room.
Hoagland v. Franklin Township Comm. School Corp., No. 49A02-1301-PL-44, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 10, 2014).
Students cannot be charged to ride the bus to and from school.
Brummett v. State, No. 49A02-1304-CR-378, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 2, 2014).
Prosecutorial misconduct amounted to fundamental error.
Russell v. State, No. 84A01-1312-CR-532, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 5, 2014).
When plea agreement mistakenly assumed that the crimes were part of a single episode and were thus subject to the statutory cap on consecutive sentences, the sentence imposed under the agreement was contrary to law and was reversed by the Court of Appeals sua sponte.