Imprisonment for child molestation and criminal confinement is insufficient, by itself, to deny an incarcerated father phone or mail contact with his child.
E. Brown
Walls v. State, No. 55A05-1211-CR-603, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 22, 2013).
Tenants had a sufficient possessory interest in their apartment doors and thresholds and the immediate adjacent areas to request, for criminal trespass purposes, that a person leave those areas and stop banging on their doors.
In Re A.H. & S.H., No. 10A01-1302-JM-93, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 21, 2013).
Department of Child Services interviewing a child as part of the initial assessment in response to a report of child abuse or neglect does not violate due process.
Toradze v. Toradze, No. 71A05-1212-DR-623, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 22, 2013).
“Because the trial court had established a duty to support the children in a court order issued prior to July 1, 2012 and the children were younger than twenty-one years of age, Mother was entitled to file her petition for post-educational expenses based on I.C. § 31-16-6-6(a) & (c).”
Hale v. State, No. 25A04-1301-CR-15, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 6, 2013).
Assesses procedure applicable to a habeas petition asserting credit time entitled petitioner to immediate release from jail work release portion of sentence; interprets work release sentence as one for direct commitment to community corrections; and concludes work release credit time applies to community corrections, home detention, and probation sentence in the aggregate.