The State has the burden of proving the essential elements of an informer’s privilege before the burden shifts to the defendant to prove an exception to that privilege.
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McCullough v. CitiMortgage, Inc., No. 71S03-1605-MF-272, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 14, 2017).
Unrepresented litigants failed to understand that bankruptcy discharged them from in personam liability, but that their in rem liability for the mortgage remained. Summary judgment on the mortgage foreclosure was properly granted.
State v. Brown, No. 49S05-1606-CR-00348, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 2, 2017).
Brief detainment at a sobriety checkpoint does not entitle defendant to Miranda warnings.
Underwood v. Bunger, No. 53S01-1703-MI-126, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 6, 2017).
The warranty deed’s unambiguous statement that the three grantees, including husband and wife, hold their interests in the property “all as Tenants-in-Common” overcomes the legal presumption favoring a tenancy by the entirety.
J.D.M. v. State, No. 21S01-1702-JV-84, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., Feb. 15, 2017).
Juvenile court may not conduct sex offender registry hearing for defendant who was not on probation and who remained at a non-secure treatment facility.