The post-conviction rules apply to criminal contempt adjudications.
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In re Name Change of Doe, No. 19A-MI-2166, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., May 18, 2020).
Petitioner is not required to be a United States citizen to obtain a statutory name change.
Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, No. 19A-PL-243, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 30, 2019).
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in fashioning a remedy that required the cemetery to provide plaintiff with a different gravesite rather than ordering the cemetery to have the individual buried in the gravesite she had previously purchased reinterred elsewhere so as to restore the gravesite for her use.
Watson v. State, No. 18A-CR-1099, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 22, 2019).
Evidence of internet searches on sexual topics are not admissible under Indiana Rule of Evidence 412 when the defense is unable to establish that the victim had exclusive control of the device upon which the searches were conducted.
Martin v. State, No. 19A-CR-183, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 11, 2019).
Defendant was improperly sentenced for a crime – Level 3 Felony robbery – for which he had not been convicted because the State did not allege the use of a deadly weapon as an enhancement of the robbery offense, and the jury was never instructed on that crime.