Retroactive application of the sex offender “residency restriction statute” to Pollard violates the Indiana Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause.
R. Rucker
Helton v. State, No. 20S04-0901-PC-41, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 23, 2009)
Defendant who pled guilty after a day of trial failed at his post-conviction hearing to prove that counsel’s failure to file a motion to suppress satisfied the prejudice prong of the ineffective assistance test; assuming for analysis that the motion to suppress would have been granted, defendant still had to prove prejudice in the P-C.R. 1 hearing by showing that the state would not have had sufficient evidence to convict him had trial continued.
Meredith v. State, No. 89S04-0808-CR-430, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., May 28, 2009)
Placement of a temporary license plate inside a vehicle’s back window is an infraction, justifying a traffic stop.
Wallace v. State, No. 49S02-0803-CR-138, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Apr. 30, 2009)
Application of the Sex Offender Registration Act to a person whose sex offense predated the Act violates the Indiana Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause.
Jensen v. State, No. 02S04-0803-CR-137, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Apr. 30, 2009)
The Indiana Ex Post Facto Clause was not violated by application of the 2006 sexually violent predator lifetime registration requirement to a person required to register as a sex offender for ten years under the law in effect when his sex offenses were committed.