Trial court did not err by denying Mother’s motion to dismiss the petition to terminate her parental rights because the evidentiary hearings were not completed within the statutory 180-day time frame when Mother affirmatively waived the time frame.
R. Pyle
In re K.R., No. 19A-JT-487, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 26, 2019).
Parents’ drug test results were admissible pursuant to the records of regularly conducted activity exception to the hearsay rule.
Pulido v. State, No. 19A-CR-834, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 12, 2019).
It is not a crime to simply be intoxicated in public, and to sustain a public intoxication conviction based on personal endangerment, the state must show proof beyond a reasonable doubt and not by merely speculating that the person may be in some future danger.
Core v. State, No. 91A02-1611-PC-2604, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., April 24, 2019).
PCR Rule 2(1) allows an eligible defendant to appeal from a conviction or sentence after the time for filing an appeal has expired, but does not permit a belated appeal from a post-conviction or other post-judgment proceeding.
In re E.H., No. 18A-JP-2137, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 29, 2019).
Grandparents do not have standing to seek visitation of Father’s adopted children when the Father is their son.