Indiana Child Support Guideline 3 allows periodic Social Security Disability payments to be applied against a support arrearage that accumulated before the filing of a petition to modify support.
E. Friedlander
Vaughn v. State, No. 45A05-1102-CR-5, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 14, 2011).
Mistrial was required when bailiff, at court’s direction, restrained defendant and placed a hand over defendant’s mouth as jurors were leaving the courtroom after defendant, about to testify in his own behalf, launched into a criticism of defense counsel which continued despite court’s orders to stop.
Kendrick v. State, No. 49A02-1003-CR-300, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 26, 2011)
When defendant shot a pregnant bank teller in the abdomen, causing the death of her twins, Indiana Double Jeopardy permitted a sentence only for attempted murder of the teller and required vacation of the sentences on two counts of feticide.
Grange Mut. Cas. Co. v. West Bend Mut. Ins. Co, No. 29A02-1008-PL-965, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., March 15, 2011)
In a coverage dispute regarding occurrence polices, the time of the damage, and not the time of the alleged negligent conduct that caused the damage, is the triggering event for coverage. Further, coverage under both policies were triggered under the circumstances of this case and damages are to be apportioned pursuant to the language of the insurance policies.
Boss v. State, No. 49A02-1002-CR-225, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 18, 2011)
As dog bite and dog control ordinances defendant admitted violating were not criminal, the ordinance judgments did not bar defendant’s prosecution for animal bite and failure to immunize from rabies misdemeanors even though all were based on the same conduct.