The Grandparent Visitation Statute does not provide a way that a grandparent may seek visitation when her child has murdered the mother of her two grandchildren; the order granting grandparent visitation was void.
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Passwater v. State, No. 48S05-1210-PC-583, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., June 28, 2013).
Approves Indiana Pattern Jury Instruction on penal consequences of verdicts of not responsible by reason of insanity or guilty but mentally ill.
Escobedo v. State, No. 71S03-1306-CR-455, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Jun. 28, 2013).
“Community outrage” may not be considered in determining sentence.
N. L. v. State, No. 47S01-1302-JV-126, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 1, 2013).
To order a delinquent child to register as a sex offender, the juvenile court must first hold an evidentiary hearing and “expressly” find “by clear and convincing evidence that the juvenile is likely to commit another sex offense.”
Chambers v. State, No. 53S01-1307-CR-459, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 2, 2013).
Supreme Court affirms trial court’s consecutive sentences.