The one-year speedy trial deadline includes cases involving habitual offender adjudications, and after nearly six and two-thirds years of inexplicable delay—with at least one year of delay directly attributable to the State—there was a Criminal Rule 4(C) violation. Defendant should not have been held to answer to the allegations that he is a habitual offender.
Appeals
In re Guardianship of Luis, No. 19A-GU-1276, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 1, 2019).
For Special Immigrant Juvenile status, trial courts are required to consider and make findings on two statutory elements: (1) is reunification with one or both parents viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under State law; and (2) would it be in the special immigrant’s best interest to be returned to her previous country of nationality or country of last habitual residence.
Riley v. St. Mary’s Medical Center of Evansville, No. 19A-CT-844, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 29, 2019).
Affidavit from a radiologic technologist was sufficient to rebut the medical review panel’s opinion on the element of causation and summary judgment should not have been granted.
Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, No. 19A-PL-243, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 30, 2019).
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in fashioning a remedy that required the cemetery to provide plaintiff with a different gravesite rather than ordering the cemetery to have the individual buried in the gravesite she had previously purchased reinterred elsewhere so as to restore the gravesite for her use.
Cozmanoff v. State, No. 19A-CR-1426, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 22, 2019).
Regardless of whether the conviction was entered prior to 2015, an operator of a vehicle convicted of reckless homicide is not eligible for specialized driving privileges.