Under a supreme court 2011 decision, Indiana ex post facto law would have allowed lifetime sex offender registration to apply to Becker, but a 2008 trial court ruling to the contrary was res judicata against the State on the issue, as the local prosecutor’s representation in the 2008 litigation was in privity with the DOC’s intervention in 2011 seeking to impose lifetime registration status based on the 2011 opinion.
L. Rush
In Re Adoption of C.B.M. & C.R.M, No. 37S03-1303-AD-159, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Aug. 16, 2013).
The adoption of two children was voidable under T.R. 60(B)(7) when the natural mother’s termination of parental rights was reversed on appeal.
N. L. v. State, No. 47S01-1302-JV-126, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 1, 2013).
To order a delinquent child to register as a sex offender, the juvenile court must first hold an evidentiary hearing and “expressly” find “by clear and convincing evidence that the juvenile is likely to commit another sex offense.”
KJ.R. v. M.A.B., No. 41S01-1209-MI-00556,___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., March 7, 2013).
Grandparent visitation was order was voidable, because it failed to address required findings, and was remanded to correct those defects through new findings and conclusions.
K.W. v. State, No. 49S02-1301-JV-20, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Feb. 22, 2013)
Evidence was insufficient to prove element of “forcibly” resisting law enforcement; suggests legislative scrutiny of distinction between law enforcement officer and school-discipline officer for purposes of resisting law enforcement offense.