Trial judge’s comments to jury, though perhaps ill-advised, did not vouch for the credibility of the State’s cell-phone tower evidence and undermine Defendant’s alibi defense.
R. Rucker
Ward v. State, No. 49S02-1602-CR-96, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Feb. 19, 2016).
Domestic battery victim’s statements to forensic nurse identifying her attacker were not barred as testimonial hearsay because they were given for “primary purpose” of medical treatment, which includes “safety plan” for discharge.
In re V.A., No. 02S04-1602-JT-93, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Feb. 18, 2016).
“Father’s unwillingness to live separately from a mentally ill spouse, without more, is an insufficient basis to terminate his parental rights.”
Knighten v. E. Chicago Housing Authority, No. 45S04-1512-CT-686, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Dec. 8, 2015).
Genuine issues of material fact on whether employer should be liable under the theory of respondeat superior precluded summary judgment.
Layman v. State, No. 20S04-1509-CR-548, ___ N.E.3d ___ (Ind., Sept. 18, 2015).
Evidence was insufficient to convict defendants of felony murder in the course of burglarizing a home they thought was unoccupied; none were armed or engaged in any “dangerously violent or threatening conduct” that was “clearly the mediate or immediate cause” of their co-perpetrator’s death.