Where an account is established by an attorney-in-fact using entirely the funds of a principal, the attorney-in-fact is named joint owner or POD beneficiary, and the principal has no direct involvement in, or even awareness of, the creation of the account, the survivor cannot be presumed the owner of the accounts.
M. May
Peoples v. State, No. 79A02-0812-CR-1141, __ N.E.2d __ (Inc. Ct. App., Aug. 28, 2009)
Habitual offender enhancement of a drug dealing offense requires that only one prior have also been a dealing offense, as the offense being sentenced for counts as one of the “two or more unrelated dealing convictions.”
Gerber v. State, No. 02A03-0902-CR-73, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 28, 2009)
Gerber v. State (Ind. Ct. App., May, J.) – Expungement statute does not require petitioner to wait until limitations period for dismissed charge has run, and trial judge erred in summarily dismissing expungement petition on that basis; on remand, prosecutor is not authorized to participate due to failure to have filed a notice of opposition.
Nealy v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., No. 49A02-0812-CV-1096, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 10, 2009)
Insurance company was not entitled to setoff pursuant to the advance payment statute because there were multiple defendants and the insurance company was the plaintiffs’, rather than the defendants’, insurer.
Peterson v. State, No. 29A05-0902-CR-101, __ N.E.2d )__ (Ind. Ct. App., July 14, 2009)
Probationer’s answers to sex offender treatment polygraph exam were properly admitted at his probation revocation hearing.