Amended smoking ban ordinance violates the equal privileges and immunities clause of the Indiana Constitution, voiding the amendment that exempted the riverboat casino.
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In re S.D., No. 49S05-1309-JC-585, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Feb. 12, 2014)
Trial court improperly found that a child with special needs is a child in need of services.
American Cold Storage v. The City of Boonville, No. 87S01-1303-PL-157, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Jan. 21, 2014).
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.
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.”