Criminal Rule 4(C)’s one-year limitation does not include the time during which trial proceedings have been stayed pending interlocutory appeal. Appointment of a special prosecutor was not required under an appearance of impropriety standard when circumstances indicated regular prosecutor had no actual conflict.
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State v. Brown, No. 38A05-0810-CR-573, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 9, 2009)
After officers had completed their response to a complaint about a noisy party and were leaving the site, their demand to see the license of a motorist who was arriving at the party was an unreasonable search under the Indiana Constitution.
McCullough v. State, No. 49S02-0809-CR-508, __ N.E.2d (Ind., Feb. 10, 2009)
(1) in the exercise of the appellate authority to review and revise criminal sentences, a court may decrease or increase the sentence; (2) the State may not by appeal or cross-appeal initiate a challenge to a sentence imposed by a trial court; and (3) if a defendant seeks appellate review and revision of a sentence, the State may respond and urge the imposition of a greater sentence without the necessity of proceeding by cross-appeal.
Klotz v. Hoyt, No. 18S02-0807-CV-391, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Jan. 22, 2009)
Klotz v. Hoyt (Ind., Dickson, J.) – Landlord’s untimely or inadequate statutory damage notice to tenant precludes only landlord’s claims for physical damage to the premises and does not bar landlord from recovery of unpaid rent and other losses.
Cooper Indus., LLC v. South Bend, No. 49S04-0711-CV-541, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind., Jan. 22, 2009)
Landowner’s claims under the Environmental Legal Action statute accrued at the time the statute became effective.