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Ind. Courts - More on Delaware County Courts drug forfeitures and related matters

Posted on August 12, 2008
The last story the ILB posted on the Delaware County courts' drug forfeiture and related issues was Aug. 8th. Today the Muncie Star-Press has two more stories. In the first, Rick Yencer reports:Delaware County Prosecutor Mark McKinney on Monday accused...

Ind. Courts - "Judge sentences absent juror to serve as a warning to others"

Posted on August 12, 2008
So reports Bill Dolan today in a story today in the NWI Times. Some quotes:CROWN POINT | A judge bent on instructing the public to fulfill jury obligations got his point across Monday morning with the reluctant help of a...

Courts - "In U.S., Expert Witnesses Are Partisan"

Posted on August 12, 2008
The American justice system and expert witnesses is the focus of this Adam Liptak column today in the NY Times. It is one of a "series of articles [examining] commonplace aspects of the American justice system that are actually unique...

Ind. Courts - Vanderburgh County major drug prosecutions may fall next year due to budget constraints

Posted on August 12, 2008
Thomas B. Langhorne reports today in the Evansville Courier & Press in a long story that begins:The number of major drug cases prosecuted in Vanderburgh County next year could fall because of money problems detailed publicly on Monday. After the...

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Ind. Decisions - Upcoming oral arguments this week

Posted on August 11, 2008
This week's oral arguments before the Supreme Court, including plea agreements, right to speedy trial: This Thursday, Aug. 14th: 9:00 AM - Bruce Wayne St. Clair, Jr. v. State - After the Steuben Superior Court accepted a plea agreement and...

Law - More on "Loan repayment assistance programs progress"

Posted on August 11, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from March 27th, the AP is reporting, in a story with an Oklahoma slant, but one that I believe is applicable nationally:A federal law awaiting President Bush's signature will allow Oklahoma prosecutors and public defenders to...

Ind. Courts - More on: Lake County Council "frowns on unchanged budgets from county judges "

Posted on August 11, 2008
Budget time and the annual questions of county budgeting for the judiciary, illustrated by this entry from Aug. 7th headed "Lake County Council frowns on unchanged budgets from county judges." The Indianapolis Star this morning had a story that...

Ind. Decisions - Court of Appeals issues 4 today (and 20 NFP)

Posted on August 11, 2008
For publication opinions today (4): In Misty D. Davis v. State of Indiana , a 16-page opinion, Judge Kirsch writes:Misty D. Davis appeals her convictions and sentence for assisting a criminal in murder as a Class C felony and giving...

Ind. Law - "Governor announces school discipline plan to protect teachers"

Posted on August 11, 2008
From a press release issued today:FORT WAYNE (August 11, 2008) -- Governor Mitch Daniels today announced his intention to seek legal protection for teachers and school staff who act in good faith to maintain discipline and order in their classrooms.....

Law - Kentucky prosecutor charges husband with murder after wife kills herself; likened to Indiana case

Posted on August 11, 2008
From a long story today by Jason Riley in the Louisville Courier Journal:During a drunken argument with her husband on Sept. 10, Katherine Mae Simpson put a loaded handgun to her head and pulled the trigger. Nearly a year after...

Ind. Gov't. - Paper pens tribute to state public access counselor

Posted on August 11, 2008
From an editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:[I]t?s encouraging to see the impressive record that Indiana?s new public access counselor is building. Heather Willis Neal, who was appointed to the post by Gov. Mitch Daniels in July 2007,...

Environment - More on: massive fish kill in Union City

Posted on August 11, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Aug. 8th, Joy Leiker reports today in the Muncie Star-Press:UNION CITY -- The hog farmer who admitted to polluting the Little Mississinewa River last week with manure, and as a result killed tens of thousands...

About this blog - The ILB had 67,578 page views in July

Posted on August 10, 2008
All the ILB statistics are available using the SiteMeter logo at the bottom of the right-hand column. Once at the ILB's SiteMeter page, from the left-hand column select "visits and page views > previous 12 months" to see total ILB...

Ind. Courts - LaPorte Circuit judge announces he will reject any future plea agreement to reduce a felony to a misdemeanor

Posted on August 10, 2008
Stan Maddux reports today for The Michigan City News-Dispatch:LA PORTE - In his nearly 20 months on the bench, La Porte Circuit Court Judge Tom Alevizos has often made it clear that he won't tolerate a soft approach toward criminals....

Ind. Gov't. - "Public records not released from Jeffersonville's Clerk-Treasurer's Office"

Posted on August 10, 2008
The Jeffersonville Evening News & Tribune reports in a story dated Saturday evening:Mike Hutt, a former Jeffersonville City Council candidate, has filed a formal complaint against the city?s Clerk-Treasurer?s Office, alleging that he was wrongly denied access to public records...

Environment - Air permit request raises concerns in Allen County

Posted on August 10, 2008
Dan Stockman of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a major story today on a BFGoodrich air permit request. Some quotes:An Allen County tire manufacturer may be allowed to increase its ozone-causing pollution by up to 40 tons per year....

Ind. Courts - Lake Criminal Court drug defendants bargain for lesser sentences

Posted on August 10, 2008
Marisa Kwiatkowski of the NWI Times reports today in a long story that begins:CROWN POINT | More than 96 percent of Lake Criminal Court defendants charged in drug-related crimes have pleaded their way out of heftier prison time in the...

Ind. Law - "New law reshapes government construction game"

Posted on August 10, 2008
That is the headline of a story today by Patrick Guinane in the NWI Times. A quote:The Indiana General Assembly set a higher bar for public support as of July 1. New projects, including most school buildings, now will be...

Ind. Law - "Indianapolis civil rights advocate Alan Nolan dies at 85"

Posted on August 09, 2008
From the front-page of this morning's Indianapolis Star, a lengthy story by Heather Gillers that begins:Alan Nolan had credentials and an education that could open any door. He used those tools instead to break down walls. On Sunday, the city...

Ind. Law - "Hammond's red light camera ordinance not legal"

Posted on August 09, 2008
Several Indiana cities have been looking into using red-light cameras, Gary, Hammond, West Lafayette among them. The ILB has had a number of entries about whether red-lights cameras are legal - see the list here. Karen Snelling of the Gary...

Ind. Courts - More on "Attorney Michael 'Mick' Alexander seeks delay of trial, new judge"

Posted on August 09, 2008
Updaing this entry from yesterday, Douglas Walker reports today in the Muncie Star-Press that begins:MUNCIE -- A Jay County judge on Friday declined to disqualify himself from presiding over ex-Delaware County Prosecutor Michael J. "Mick" Alexander's upcoming conspiracy-to-commit-bribery trial...

Environment - "State leaders need to revisit concentrated animal feeding legislation"

Posted on August 09, 2008
From an editorial today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:A proposal to build a 4,000-hog farm near New Haven brings the issue of Indiana?s dramatic increase in large concentrated feeding operations close to home. Although large animal operations are more...

Ind. Courts - Update on: Plea deal pulled in attorney sex-attack case

Posted on August 09, 2008
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Harold J. Adams reports today in the LCJ:New Albany attorney Anthony Wallingford pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual battery involving a 16-year-old girl and likely faces losing his right to practice law, at least temporarily, in addition...

Courts - "Are Facial Challenges Going the Way of the Dodo?" Indiana voter ID ruling cited

Posted on August 09, 2008
So asked Ashby Jones in the WSJ Law Blog yesterday. The entry quotes from Marcia Coyle's August 8th review of the court term in the National Law Journal. Among the "trends" Coyle points out to track:The broadest of constitutional attacks,...

Ind. Courts - More on: Jeffersonville's ban on sex offender in park to be tested again

Posted on August 09, 2008
This ILB posting yesterday quoted a Harold J. Adams report in the Louisville Courier Journal that began:A judge said he will decide today whether to grant a Clarksville man an exemption to an ordinance that bans sex offenders from Jeffersonville...

Ind. Courts - More on "Stop making judges run for office, Lake County commissioners argue"

Posted on August 09, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from Aug. 5th, Marisa Kwiatkowski of the NWI Times reports:CROWN POINT | The Lake County Bar Association joined the call this week to convert four county courts to a merit-based system. Lake County is one of...

Ind. Decisions - "Weapons case appeal 'untimely'"

Posted on August 08, 2008
The Lafayette Journal & Courier has a story this afternoon on what apparently is a ruling of the Court of Appeals, but the ruling does not appear online:The Carroll County prosecutor waited too long to appeal a judge's decision that...

Ind. Decisions - Transfer list for week ending August 8, 2008

Posted on August 08, 2008
Here is the Indiana Supreme Court's transfer list for the week ending Aug. 8, 2008. Note that there are five pages. The three transfers granted Aug. 1st, Estate of Prickett, McSwane v. Bloomington Hosp, and Meredith v. State, are on...

Ind. Decisions - Two Indiana cases today from the 7th Circuit

Posted on August 08, 2008
In US v. Spells (SD Ind., Judge Barker), a 24-page opinion, Judge Flaum writes:Defendant Melvin Spells was convicted by a jury on three counts stemming from a robbery of a Papa Johns Pizza restaurant. While Spells challenges the sufficiency...

Ind. Law - More on: ILB makes the complete history of the Indiana Code of 1971 accessible; and a plea for funding

Posted on August 08, 2008
Updating this ILB entry from August 4th, I've now completed the second index to the complete history of the deliberations of the Indiana Statute Revision Commission, covering the course of its existence - 1969-1970. A "Listings by topic" index now...

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