“We therefore conclude that the Indiana pre-tax sale notice statute violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not require the government to provide sufficient notice prior to the tax sale either by mail or by personal service to mortgagees who have publicly recorded mortgages, even if such notice is not requested by the mortgagees, and because it provides that, even if the government fails to mail the requested notice or the notice is undeliverable for some reason, the validity of the tax sale will not be affected.”
Appeals
McWhorter v. State, No. 33A01-1202-PC-72, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 12, 2012).
Instructions “prescribed sequential error.”
Stutz v. State, No. 49A02-1110-CR-960, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 5, 2012).
“[C]lass A misdemeanor operating a vehicle with a BAC of at least .15 percent is not a lesser included offense of class C misdemeanor operating while intoxicated.”
T.B. v. Ind. Dept. of Child Svcs., No. 79A04-1110-JT-594, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2012).
The Court declined to adopt a policy that prohibits the involuntary termination of parental rights for all mentally retarded parents.
Estrada v. State, No. 20A03-1110-CR-474, __ N.E.2d__ (Ind. Ct. App., June 22, 2012).
As two of Estrada’s string of five robberies were armed, and she was 16 when she committed them, they were not within the subject matter jurisdiction of the juvenile court in which she was adjudicated delinquent for the other three robberies, so even assuming the successive prosecution statute applies to delinquencies the two armed robberies were not offenses which “should have been charged” in the juvenile proceeding.