Seizure of money found in parcel was illegal because there was no evidence of unlawful activity and no charges were made in connection with the parcel.
R. Pyle
Norris v. State, No. 18A-CR-86, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Nov. 14, 2018).
Fleeing in a vehicle and then on foot constitute one continuous act of resisting law enforcement, which cannot result in a conviction of two separate crimes.
Brooks v. State, No. 18A-CR-759, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 31, 2018).
While defendant showed obnoxious disrespect for authority, her conviction for resisting law enforcement was reversed because strong, powerful, violent means were not shown to be used to evade a law enforcement official’s rightful exercise of his duties.
In re Adoption of L.G.K., No. 18A-AD-371, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Oct. 31, 2018).
Trial court properly granted unregistered putative father’s motion for relief from adoption when mother fraudulently claimed that she did not know the identity of child’s father.
Fairbanks v. State, No. 49A02-1707-CR-1675, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 1, 2018).
The trial court properly admitted evidence that the defendant’s daughter’s death was no accident under Evid. Rule 404(b)’s lack-of-accident purpose, even though the defendant did not affirmatively claim mistake or accident.