Gaming Enforcement Agent unlawfully exceeded the scope of a pat down search by reaching into defendant’s pocket and removing a ball of powdered substance.
Appeals
Buford v. State, No. 19A-CR-956, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 20, 2019).
Criminal contempt for violation of a no contact order and ninety-day jail sentence was vacated on double jeopardy grounds because the State filed an invasion of privacy charge on the same day as the contempt hearing.
Butler v. State, No. 19A-MI-5, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 27, 2019).
The trial court properly ordered the forfeiture of defendant’s car because the 2018 amendments to Indiana’s civil-forfeiture scheme were procedural in nature and do not constitute an ex post facto law; defendant failed to establish that the seizure of the car was in any way improper.
Henderson v. Henderson, No. 19A-DC-1517, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 18, 2019).
Husband’s contractual interest as the contract purchaser in certain real estate was properly included in the marital estate even thought it is is titled in a third-party.
In re Termination of Parent-Child Relationship, S.K., No. 19A-JT-1797, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 23, 2019).
The Indian Child Welfare Act did not apply to child because the child did not belong to a federally recognized tribe.