The Supreme Court has granted transfer in the misdemeanor sentencing case Jennings v. State, thereby vacating the Court of Appeals opinions found at 956 N.E.2d 203 (Ind. Ct. App. 2011), on rehearing 962 N.E.2d 1260 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012).
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Dye v. State, No. 20S04-1201-CR-5, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 31, 2012).
Habitual offender enhancement may not be imposed on conviction of possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
Castillo v. State, No. 45S00-1102-LW-110, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 31, 2012).
When evidence showed defendant’s boyfriend killed her child and that she was an accomplice to the murder, the life without parole sentence for her was inappropriate; revises murder sentence to 65 years.
Conley v. State, No. 58S00-1011-CR-634, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., July 31, 2012).
Life without parole sentence was appropriate and constitutional for seventeen and a half-year old who murdered his ten-year old brother.
Anyango v. Rolls Royce Corp., No. 49S04-1207-CT-434, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., July 30, 2012).
The trial court correctly granted a motion to dismiss under T.R. 4.4(C) because the plaintiffs did not demonstrate that the alternative forum was “so inadequate or unsatisfactory that there is no remedy at all.”