“Indiana Code Section 35-46-1-5 permits a separate class D felony conviction for nonsupport of each dependent child, but only one such offense may be enhanced to a class C felony where the unpaid support for one or more of such children is $15,000 or more.”
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Adams v. State, No. 29S02-1109-CR-542, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Feb. 2, 2012).
To impose the IC 35-48-4-15(a) mandatory license suspension for using a vehicle in the commission of a drug offense, the “State must demonstrate that a defendant made more than an incidental use of a motor vehicle in committing his offense”; evidence defendant “possessed a jar of marijuana by keeping the jar on the floorboard in front of him while he sat in the passenger seat” supported suspension; it was “not a situation in which a defendant merely happened to possess a small bag of marijuana in his pocket without making any direct use of the vehicle to do so.”
Person v. Shipley, No. 20S03-1110-CT-609, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Jan. 31, 2012).
Trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting expert testimony offered by a personal injury defendant in a rear-end collision case.
Bennett v. Richmond, No. 20S03-1105-CV-293, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Jan. 31, 2012).
Trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting expert testimony offered by a personal injury defendant in a rear-end collision case.
Hill v. State, No. 45S03-1105-PC-283, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Jan. 24, 2012).
Standard for assessing effective performance of Post-Conviction Rule 2 counsel is the Baum “due-course-of-law” standard, not the two-prong Sixth Amendment Strickland standard.