For purposes of Class C felony criminal recklessness shooting a firearm into an “inhabited dwelling,” a dwelling is “inhabited” “if someone is likely to be inside,” even if it is shown that in fact no one was inside at the time of the shooting.
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Austin v. State, No. 20A03-1112-CR-588, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Dec. 21, 2012).
Trial court properly found that defendant could not be tried on the seventieth day under his Criminal Rule 4(B) motion when there was a contested child support hearing scheduled for that day and the continuance of the defendant’s earlier scheduled trial date did not leave time for summoning jurors or for state witness subpoenas.
Dowell v. State, No. 09A05-1201-CR-36, __ N.E.2d__ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 27, 2012).
Jury Rules’ “leeway” for assisting a deliberating jury does not permit giving a supplemental instruction on accomplice liability by means of a note to jurors, instead of rereading all instructions in open court.
In Re: Prosecutor's Subpoena Regarding S.H. and S.C., 73A01-1109-CR-468, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., June 22, 2012).
A prosecutor investigating a crime before charging someone without a grand jury has the same authority to grant use immunity as a prosecutor using a grand jury.
Garrett v. State, No. 32A05-1105-CR-239, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 7, 2012).
When defendant passenger testified that the driver was the dealer of the methamphetamine in a make-up bag next to her purse and that he threatened to hurt her and her children if she did not say the meth belonged to her, there was a “serious evidentiary dispute” as to whether defendant had intent to deal the meth, as charged, and it was reversible error not to instruct on the lesser included of possession of methamphetamine.