Evidence of payments made by the Healthy Indiana Plan (“HIP”) to reimburse plaintiff’s medical providers was inadmissible.
E. Brown
Darringer v. State, No. 32A01-1503-CR-86, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. Nov. 13, 2015).
Traffic stop was based on unreasonable mistake of law, thus requiring suppression of evidence and reversal of OWI conviction; deputy’s belief in mid-2014 that temporary license plate could not be displayed in back window was unreasonable in view of 2013 amendment of I.C. § 9-32-6-11 expressly permitting such displays.
Pittman v. State, No. 49A05-1504-CR-137, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App. Nov. 5, 2015).
Attempted stalking, unlike the completed crime, does not require proof that the defendant’s conduct “actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened.”
Stockert v. State, No. 76A04-1504-CR-144, ___ N.E.3d ___, (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 22, 2015).
By operation of law, defendant’s guilty plea to B-felony criminal deviate conduct rendered him SVP with lifetime registration; DOC therefore properly classified him as such, despite trial court’s erroneous statements that he was required to register for only ten years and was not an SVP.
Burnell v. State, No. 29A02-1412-CR-849, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 24, 2015).
OWI suspect’s drivers license was properly suspended under Implied Consent Law; walking away from officer and disregarding request to stop constituted refusal to submit to chemical test, even though her words had expressed reluctant agreement to be tested.