“[N]urses can potentially have sufficient expertise to qualify as experts for the purposes of medical standards of care and medical causation.”
Appeals
Gulzar v. State, No. 20A03-1202-PC-88, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 7, 2012).
Even assuming, had he been advised of deportation consequences, that defendant would not have pled guilty due to the “special circumstances” that deportation would have uprooted his family, the very strong evidence of his guilt made harmless counsel’s failure to advise him that his theft plea bargain would result in automatic deportation.
Est. of Short v. Brookville Crossing 4060 LLC, No. 49A02-1112-CT-1128, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., July 31, 2012).
Declines to extend the duty of innkeepers to guests to include instances in which the owner did not have knowledge of a perilous situation.
Cline v. State, No. 06A05-1111-MI-611, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 26, 2012).
Trial court, which determined that Indiana ex post facto law prevents state from requiring petitioner to register as a sex offender, did not have authority to order the petitioner’s name to be removed from the Sex Offender Registry.
Mertz v. Mertz, No. 64A03-1108-DR-360, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., July 26, 2012).
A trial court best determines whether under Ind. Code 31-16-12-11 the sufficiency of a plan offered by an obligor to pay arrearage is sufficient to reinstate driving privileges.