Parents of competent adults are not included in the list of persons having authority to accept service under T.R. 4.16; service is not adequate on the home of a competent adult’s parents if that adult does not live at that address.
T. Crone
Tongate v. State, No. 29A02-1102-CR-223, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 16, 2011).
After magistrate had presided at trial, judge properly ruled on motion to correct error after reviewing tape recording of trial.
Goldberg v. Farno, No. 41A01-1007-MF-348, ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ind. Ct. App., Sept. 26, 2011).
“Plain legal prejudice” is adopted as the standard for determining whether a non-settling defendant has standing to challenge a partial settlement to which it is not a party.
Feuston v. State, No. 38A02-1011-CR-1175, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Aug. 19, 2011).
Trial court has no duty to set a trial date when defendant absconds and fails to appear; Criminal Rule 4(C) one year did not begin to run until defendant’s notice of his incarceration in another county and request for trial were received by the trial court and the prosecutor; fact jail may have known of defendant’s presence in the other county was not attributable to court and prosecutor in this case.
Hawkins v. State, No. 79A02-1101-CR-100, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., July 18, 2011).
Sentence modification statute’s 365 day period in which judge may modify without prosecutor agreement starts when original sentence is imposed and is not “reset” with a resentencing.