A court is not authorized to consider an expunged conviction in the context of an expungement proceeding for purposes of determining whether the person has a conviction within the previous five years.
C. Bradford
Sullivan Corp. v. Rabco Enterprises, LLC, No. 20A-PL-1444, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 7, 2020).
Ind. Code § 32-28-3-17, on forum selection clauses, should be read broadly to apply to all contracts for the improvement of real estate in Indiana.
Harris v. State, No. 20A-CR-732, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 17, 2020).
Trial court acted within its discretion when it accepted a guilty plea but explained it would not be accepted until review of the PSI; then after review of the PSI determined the plea agreement was unacceptable and allowed the defendant to revoke the guilty plea before trial.
Edwards v. State, No. 20A-CR-42, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 30, 2020).
When there is no nexus between the illegal possession and another crime, courts must look to the time of acquisition to determine whether multiple possessions constitute a single episode of criminal conduct.
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.