Indianapolis, IN
Criminal defense Lawyer at Indianapolis, IN
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Federal Crime, Civil Rights
OUTCOME: New rule of evidence established, as a matter of first impression.
Issue of first impression, changing rules of evidence in criminal prosecutions of sex cases. The court abandoned the depraved sexual exception and held that the rules of evidence were to be used in det ... ermining whether evidence of prior sexual misconduct should be admitted.
OUTCOME: reversed in part
challenging the waiver of the admissibility of polygraph results as a condition of probation. The court held it was inappropriate for a trial court to coerce a defendant to agree to the admissibility o ... f evidence that otherwise would be inadmissible because it has not been found scientifically reliable. Thus, the rehabilitative benefits of the polygraph examination condition must be obtained without the examination results being admissible in any subsequent court proceeding.
OUTCOME: reversed and remanded.
addressing the issue of harmless error where the clerk did not issue subpoenas, as requested by PCR litigant challenging his guilty plea
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