Warrantless search of defendant’s car, conducted in the evening after defendant’s arrest on an outstanding warrant and after an alert by a drug-sniff dog, did not violate Indiana Constitution’s Article I section 11.
Appeals
D.B. v. M.B.V., No. 32A01-0903-CV-110, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. Oct. 2, 2009)
To terminate parenting time, trial court must articulate a finding that parenting time would endanger the child’s physical health or significantly impair the child’s emotional development.
Hillebrand v. Supervised Estate of Charlotte Fern Large, No. 70A01-0902-CV-72, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. Oct. 13, 2009)
The damages awarded in a wrongful death action may include the reasonable attorney fees necessary to pursue the action, and these damages inure to the exclusive benefit of the estate for the payment of such costs.
League of Women Voters of Indiana, Inc. v. Rokita, No. 49A02-0901-CV-40, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 17, 2009)
Indiana’s Voter I.D. law violates the equal privileges and immunities clause of the Indiana Constitution.
Slone v. State, No. 57A03-0904-CR-162, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 9, 2009)
Evidence that defendant bought two twenty-count packages of pseudoephedrine within one week during cold season was insufficient to prove defendant knowingly purchased drugs containing more than three grams of ephedrine within one week.