The criminal code demonstrates our legislature’s intent that a habitual offender amendment be filed no less than 30 days before the beginning of trial as opposed to a particular trial setting.
L. Weissmann
Posterity Scholar House, LP v. FCCI Ins. Co., No. 22A-EV-1751, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 1, 2023).
The common law duty of good faith in performing its obligations under an insurance policy that an insurer owes its insured a does not extend to the relationship between surety and obligee in the context of performance and payment bonds on a construction project.
Smith v. State, No. 22A-CR-00364, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 25, 2022).
Prosecuting attorneys have broad discretion to bargain with a defendant in resolving criminal charges through a pretrial diversion program. But once the State enters into a valid diversion agreement, it may not unilaterally revoke the agreement based only on buyer’s remorse.
McQuinn v. State, No. 21A-CR-1637, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 19, 2022).
An appellate opinion based upon review of sufficiency of the evidence will rarely, if ever, be an appropriate basis for a jury instruction. Moreover, the personal jury waiver requirement is required in the second phase of a bifurcated trial.
In re Civil Commitment of L.B., No. 22A-MH-153, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 15, 2022).
A trial court must expressly find, on the record, that a civil-commitment respondent is capable of knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently waiving the right to counsel before accepting the respondent’s waiver of that right.