The trial court properly vacated a paternity order issued under a fraudulent pretext.
P. Riley
State v. Vickers, No. 88A05-1106-PC-317, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 21, 2012).
Fact that there was no record of defendant’s waiver of his right to counsel was not sufficient to meet his P-C.R. burden to prove his waiver was involuntary.
Shuai v. State, No. 49A02-1106-CR-486, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 8, 2012).
Trial court properly denied motion to dismiss murder and attempted feticide charges based on defendant’s having ingested rat poison to commit suicide and cause death of her third trimester fetus, which allegedly died a few days after birth from hemorrhage allegedly caused by the rat poison.
Rogers v. State, No. 84A01-1104-CR-148, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 30, 2011).
Defendant in a sex offender registration prosecution waived any ex post facto objection to the registration offense’s application to him when he pled guilty to the offense pursuant to a plea agreement which conferred benefits on him.
Weinberg v. Boyer, No. 45A03-1011-CT-598, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 19, 2011).
In a medical malpractice suit, patient abandonment is part of the underlying medical malpractice and should be evaluated in light of the medical malpractice suit’s standard of care.