Affirms admission of defendant’s custodial interrogation statement, based in part on appellate court’s review of the video recording of the statement.
R. Rucker
Isom v. State, No. 45S00-0803-DP-125, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., May 20, 2015).
Murdered person’s family members were not themselves victims of the murders, and accordingly evidence the family members had forgiven the defendant was not mitigation evidence and was properly excluded in the death penalty phase of the trial.
Pierce v. State, No. 78S05-1407-CR-460, __ N.E.3d__ (Ind., May 12, 2015).
Because defendant grandfather’s molestations of his granddaughters were sufficiently “connected together” under the joinder statute, he had no right to have the molestation charges severed for trial on the basis they were joined only because they were “of the same or similar character.”
Myers v. State, No. 76S03-1407-CR-493, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Apr. 8, 2015).
Experts unanimously agreed defendant was legally insane, but other evidence in the record supported the jury’s conclusion that he was not; as it was not shown defendant was given Miranda rights, the State could use his post-arrest silence and request for an attorney as evidence of sanity without violating his due process rights.
Sargent v. State, No. 49D07-1111-MI-44802, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Mar. 24, 2015).
Reverses forfeiture of vehicle on basis that employee detained in her workplace while trying to illegally take employer’s property was not in possession, constructive or otherwise, of her automobile parked in the lot at the place of employment.