Under I.C. § 6-1.1-12.1-5.9(e), the statute’s language that the appeal shall be heard and decided within thirty days was not meant as mandatory language but was included in the statute so that the matter would be acted upon promptly and expeditiously.
R. Altice
Sanchez v. State, No. 24A-CR-802, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 15, 2025).
Altice, C.J. Jose L. Lopez Sanchez, charged with operating while intoxicated (OWI), brings this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of his request to compel the discovery of police reports related to his criminal prosecution. He contends that the trial court erred in determining that the Access to Public Records Act (APRA), Ind. Code […]
Tillett v. State, No. 24A-CR-1413, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 28, 2025).
A defendant, charged with a felony, must file a notice of intent to raise an insanity defense no later than 20 days before omnibus date. However, in the interest of justice and upon a showing of good cause, a trial court may permit the filing to be made at any time before commencement of the trial.
State v. Brooks-Brown 24A-CR-627, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 16, 2024).
Evidence that a person was an alleged victim of human trafficking at the time of an alleged crime may be used to dispute the mens rea required to prove the charged crime.
Peters v. Quakenbush, No. 24A-PL-405, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 13, 2024).
The plain language of the other-jurisdiction provision of Indiana’s Sex and Violent Offender Act compels registration for individuals with out-of-state registration obligations regardless of the source of those obligations.