A general waiver of a right to appeal a sentence in plea agreement, when contained in the same sentence as an unenforceable waiver of post-conviction relief, is insufficiently explicit to establish a knowing and voluntary waiver of the right to appeal a sentence.
Per Curiam
In re J.C., No. 20S-JT-235, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., April 1, 2020).
Where the parent affirmatively waived the requirement, a parent is not entitled to dismissal of a TPR petition due to the juvenile court’s failure to complete a hearing within the statutorily required 180 days.
Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, No. 20S-PL-102, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 11, 2020).
Gravesite purchaser, who discovered that the cemetery resold the gravesite and allowed someone else to be buried there, is entitled to correction of the wrongful burial.
In re Adoption of C.A.H., No. 20S-AD-5, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Jan. 10, 2020).
A parent’s implied consent to the adoption may not be based solely on their failure to appear at a single hearing.
Schuler v. State, No. 31S00-1703-LW-134, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Oct. 18, 2019).
Because the trial court’s revised sentencing order demonstrated that it did not rely on non-statutory aggravating circumstances in imposing life without parole, the order was not improper.