When a parent, having abandoned a child, dies in that state of abandonment, the child’s inability to reunify with that parent is still due to abandonment for purposes of the Special Immigrant Juvenile statute
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Feeman v. State, No. 23A-CR-2503, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., June 24, 2024).
When a defendant is charged with a crime against another person, the victim’s identity is a material element of the offense that the State must specifically allege in the charging information and then prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
Campbell v. Campbell, No. 23A-CT-2178, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 8, 2024).
While domestic violence is of general public interest, where the allegations concern private conduct by private individuals and attract no public interest on their own, the anti-SLAPP defense for a defamation claim does not apply.
Rose v. State, No. 23A-CR-2139, __N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Apr. 8, 2024).
A sex or violent offender must register, among other things, their username for any social networking web site. A website is a social networking web site if, among other things, it provides a member with the opportunity to communicate with another person. This element does not require the website to have a built-in messaging or chat function so long as it provides some way for a member to contact another person.
Marroquin v. Reagle, No. 23A-MI-2545, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 23, 2024).
When defendant was convicted of a crime in Indiana that does not require sex offender registration and then moves to a state that did require sex offender registration, the defendant is not required to register when moving back to Indiana.