Officers’ warrantless search of home to determine whether there was an additional occupant who could have fired a weapon was a valid protective sweep.
Appeals
Fowler v. State, No. 49A02-0910-CR-1037, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 30, 2010)
A police booking printout was “administrative,” not investigative, and hence was admissible under the public record hearsay exception; the booking printout also was not “testimonial” under the Crawford confrontation rule.
T.N. v. B.D., No. 49A02-0907-JV-693, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2010)
Trial court’s order prohibiting Mother from discussing with the media the knowledge she obtained independent of juvenile proceedings was an invalid prior restraint on Mother’s free speech rights.
Harrison v. Veolia Water Indianapolis, LLC, No. 49A04-0912-CV-722, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2010)
Water company was not a governmental entity or a political subdivision of the State entitled to the protections of the Indiana Tort Claims Act.
City of Indianapolis v. Duffitt, No. 49A04-0911-CV-661, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 29, 2010)
Because Defendant-City’s actions were discretionary functions, Plaintiff’s tort claim was barred under the Indiana Tort Claims Act.