Plurality agrees defendant receives no sentence credit for period he was arrested on charges unrelated to the one he pled guilty to and which were dismissed; plurality agrees defendant receives credit from time he was arrested on charge he pled guilty to.
Appeals
Dowdell v. City of Jeffersonville, No. 10A04-0811-CV-676, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 9, 2009)
Jeffersonville ordinance that prohibited convicted sex offenders from entering public parks was unconstitutional as applied under the prohibition on ex post facto laws in the Indiana Constitution.
State v. Boadi, No. 64A05-0807-CR-420, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 13, 2009)
Failure to stop at a red light due to inadvertence or an error in judgment, without more, does not constitute recklessness.
McMurrar v. State, No. 49A02-0809-CR-868, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 12, 2009)
Admission of drug test results on testimony of sponsoring witness, the lab’s quality assurance manager, without testimony of the lab scientist who performed the test or a showing of the latter’s unavailability, violated defendant’s confrontation rights.
Salter v. State, No. 49A02-0808-CR-672, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 19, 2005)
Downloading an image to a computer is not “creating a digitized image” under the child exploitation offense; the dissemination of matter harmful to minors offense was unconstitutionally vague as applied to defendant’s sending an image of his genitals to a sixteen year old with whom he could legally have consensual sexual relations.