A person who was placed on community corrections home detention prior to July 1, 2010 is not entitled to “good time credit” for the time on home detention.
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Smith v. State, No. 49S02-1109-CR-529, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2012).
Rejects defendant’s argument that the Crawford confrontation decision should alter the “substantially trustworthy” standard for the due process confrontation right in a community corrections revocation, and holds that drug screen evidence was shown by affidavit of laboratory supervisor to have met the “substantially trustworthy” test.
Vaughn v. State, No. 45S05-1112-CR-684, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2012).
Trial judge properly refused mistrial motion by defendant who, on being forcibly removed after refusing to cease complaining about defense counsel to the jury, briefly was silenced by the bailiff’s covering his mouth.
Lock v. State, No. 35S04-1110-CR-622, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 26, 2010).
Evidence that habitual traffic offender’s “Zuma” was travelling at 43 miles per hour sufficed to prove that it had a “maximum design speed” of more than 25 miles per hour and that accordingly it was not a “motorized bicycle” which defendant could operate while suspended.
Clark v. Clark, No. 01S02-1112-CT-690, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., July 23, 2012).
The Indiana Guest Statute does not preclude a passenger from bringing a negligence action against a driver “as to injuries inflicted when such a passenger has exited the vehicle and is standing outside of it and directing the driver’s attempt to park.”