Multiple parcels of land acquired by the state for an adjoining public roadway are counted as one parcel for purposes of determining whether the remonstrating landowners comprise 65% of the owners of the annexed territory.
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Walker v. State, No. 49S02-1312-CR-804, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Dec. 12, 2013).
Reviews caselaw on resisting law enforcement offense and affirms conviction when defendant “refused repeated orders to lay down on the ground and advanced aggressively, with his fists clenched, to within a few feet of the police officer issuing the orders before ultimately being tased.”
Speers v. State, No. 55S01-1312-CR-841, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Dec. 19, 2013).
“[A] laboratory technician involved in the chain of custody of DNA evidence” need not “testify at trial in order to satisfy the demands of a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right of confrontation.”
Halliburton v. State, No. 20S00-1206-LW-560, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Dec. 19, 2013).
Limiting instruction erroneously advised the jury that the court had ruled the evidence to be relevant and admissible because the probative value outweighed any prejudice, but the error was not fundamental.
Johnson v. Johnson, No. 49S05-1303-DR-199, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Dec. 12, 2013).
Using the flexibility provided in the Indiana Child Support Guidelines, the trial court properly modified a child support order regarding calculation of health insurance premiums and application of Social Security Retirement benefits.