Plaintiff has no private case of action under Ind. Code. § 31-25-2-5 to enforce the maximum caseload standard against the Department of Child Services, but can proceed with her mandate action.
J. Kirsch
Zanders v. State, No. 15A01-1509-CR-1519, ___N.E.3d___ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 4, 2016).
Law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant before searching a cell phone incident to arrest and gathering location data on its GPS device.
Forshee v. State, No. 16A05-1511-CR-1923, __N.E.3d__ (Ind. Ct. App., July 13, 2016).
Unless forbidden by the terms of the plea agreement, the trial court may consider all the evidence before it, including facts and circumstances relating to a dismissed charge.
Rogers v. State, 49A02-1508-CR-1033, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 6, 2016).
Social workers must be licensed in order to fall within the scope of the statutory counselor/client privilege and have their communications deemed confidential.
Purdue v. State, No. 03A01-1508-CR-1154, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 24, 2016).
Defendant was entitled to credit for pretrial incarceration in connection with cause numbers dismissed in his plea agreement; the parties and court treated the cases as “related.”