When defendant admitted he broke into a home without permission, his statement that he was confused about where he was at the time did not amount to an avowal of innocence preventing a guilty plea.
Appeals
Green v. State, No. 49A05-1006-CR-382, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 23, 2011)
Defendant committed forgery when he used another person’s credit card at an electronic point of sale terminal and electronically signed the other person’s name on a credit card receipt.
Devlin v. Peyton, No. 49A02-1008-DR-902, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 18, 2011)
Dissolution court cannot sua sponte assume jurisdiction over adoption of child of the marriage when adoption is pending in another court.
Hall v. State, No. 25A05-1008-CR-534, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 15, 2011)
Where defendant was confined prior to trial on several counties’ unrelated charges and court used discretion to make sentence consecutive to those imposed in the other counties, defendant was entitled to pretrial credit time only against the aggregate of the consecutive sentences.
Grange Mut. Cas. Co. v. West Bend Mut. Ins. Co, No. 29A02-1008-PL-965, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., March 15, 2011)
In a coverage dispute regarding occurrence polices, the time of the damage, and not the time of the alleged negligent conduct that caused the damage, is the triggering event for coverage. Further, coverage under both policies were triggered under the circumstances of this case and damages are to be apportioned pursuant to the language of the insurance policies.