Seventeen-year-old defendant’s LWOP sentence for murder and conspiracy to commit murder reduced to an aggregate eighty-year term.
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State v. Timbs, No. 27S04-1702-MI-70, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 2, 2017).
The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause does not bar the State from forfeiting Defendant’s vehicle because the United States Supreme Court has not held that the Clause applies to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Sedam v. 2JR Pizza Enterprises, LLC, No. 39S05-1703-CT-171, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Oct. 31, 2017).
When an employer admits that an employee was acting within the course and scope of his or her employment, absent special circumstances, negligent hiring claims are precluded.
Esserman v. Ind. Dep't of Envtl. Mgmt., No. 49S02-1704-PL-00189, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Nov. 2, 2017).
Indiana has not abrogated common-law sovereign immunity for non-tort claims premised on the violation of a statute.
Watkins v. State, No. 82S01-1704-CR-191, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Oct. 18, 2017).
Courts should look to the totality of the circumstances when determining the reasonableness of search warrants, as set forth in Litchfield v State.