Hampton v. State, No. 49A04-0906-CR-331, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 8, 2010)

Statute providing that the first thirty years of an A felony child molesting sentence may not be suspended does not operate to change the minimum sentence for such an offense from twenty years to thirty.

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Morris v. State, No. 02A03-0905-CR-210 , __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 9, 2010)

Reviews instructing on conversion as a lesser included offense of theft.

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Tharp v. State, No. 49A02-0905-CR-394, __ N.E.2D __ (Ind. Ct. App., Feb. 18, 2010)

Evidence the protected person or another layperson told the defendant there was a protective order against him does not suffice to prove the protective order knowledge element in the invasion of privacy offense.

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Palacios v. State, No. 29A02-0908-CR-750, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 26, 2010)

Daughter’s translation of her mother’s statements to investigating officer were admissible under the present sense impression hearsay exception.

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Skinner v. State, No. 55A01-0811-CR-543, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Jan. 28, 2010)

Former defense counsel, who had withdrawn when another client, defendant’s jailmate, became a state’s witness, could not be compelled to disclose what he had learned from the prospective witness through the attorney-client relationship, particularly when there were adequate alternative sources of impeachment available to defendant.

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