The evidence, including surveillance video and phone conversations, supported jury conviction of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. LWOP sentence was proper as the jury, not the court, weighs the mitigating and aggravating factors.
G. Slaughter
Bellwether Properties, LLC v. Duke Energy Indiana, Inc., No. 53S04-1703-CT-121, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Dec. 20, 2017).
Because the complaint does not establish that the statute of limitations had already run when the complaint was filed, Defendant’s T.R. 12(B)(6) motion shouldn’t have been granted.
Taylor v. State, No. 82S00-1610-LW-576, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Dec. 5, 2017).
Seventeen-year-old defendant’s LWOP sentence for murder and conspiracy to commit murder reduced to an aggregate eighty-year term.
State v. Timbs, No. 27S04-1702-MI-70, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 2, 2017).
The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause does not bar the State from forfeiting Defendant’s vehicle because the United States Supreme Court has not held that the Clause applies to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Esserman v. Ind. Dep't of Envtl. Mgmt., No. 49S02-1704-PL-00189, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 2, 2017).
Indiana has not abrogated common-law sovereign immunity for non-tort claims premised on the violation of a statute.