Police had sufficient reasons to execute search warrant without knocking and announcing, and in any event the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule is not applied to decisions not to knock and announce.
B. Dickson
Walker v. Pullen, No. 64S05-1101-CT-0006, ___ N.E.2d ____ (Ind., March 15, 2011)
A court cannot grant a new trial unless the judge enters special findings as required by T.R. 59(J).
Romo v. State, No. 49S04-1009-CR-499, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Feb. 9, 2011)
“[W]ritten English translations of foreign language recordings may be admitted as substantive evidence and . . . the recordings themselves generally should be admitted and played as well.”
Green v. Ford Motor Co., No. 94S00-1007-CQ-348, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Feb. 8, 2011)
In a crashworthiness case alleging enhanced injuries under the Indiana Products Liability Act, the finder of fact shall apportion fault to the person suffering physical harm when that alleged fault is a responsible cause of the harm for which damages are being sought.
Runyon v. State, No. 57S04-1006-CR-317, __N.E.2d __ (Ind., Dec. 8, 2010)
To revoke probation for failure to comply with a financial condition, the State has the burden to prove by a preponderance that the condition was violated and that the violation was reckless, knowing, or intentional; the probationer has the burden to present “facts related to an inability to pay and indicating sufficient bona fide efforts to pay so as to persuade the trial court that further imprisonment should not be ordered.”