Since paternal grandparents adopting their grandchild were adoptive rather than biological grandparents, the maternal grandparent was not eligible for visitation under the Grandparent Visitation Act.
Appeals
Hampton v. State, No. 49A04-0906-CR-331, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 8, 2010)
Statute providing that the first thirty years of an A felony child molesting sentence may not be suspended does not operate to change the minimum sentence for such an offense from twenty years to thirty.
Morris v. State, No. 02A03-0905-CR-210 , __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 9, 2010)
Reviews instructing on conversion as a lesser included offense of theft.
Tharp v. State, No. 49A02-0905-CR-394, __ N.E.2D __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 18, 2010)
Evidence the protected person or another layperson told the defendant there was a protective order against him does not suffice to prove the protective order knowledge element in the invasion of privacy offense.
In re Committment of J.W.B., No. 20A03-0909-CV-418, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 17, 2010)
Trial court lacked authority to order that a civilly committed person not be transferred “without ten (10) days written notice to the court.”