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Forfeiture of a vehicle used to sell pirated films is not authorized.
Even though detective’s interrogation was intense and confrontational, defendant’s video-taped child-molesting confession was voluntary under the circumstances.
Indiana ex post facto law prohibits application of the sex offender registration laws to a resident convicted of a sex offense in another state before the enactment of both that state’s and Indiana’s registration acts.
Master commissioner, given the same statutory authority as a magistrate, was accordingly not authorized to impose sentence following a guilty plea.
When the trial transcript was not completed by the date of the P-C.R. hearing, the P-C.R. court did not err in admitting the “then-unavailable transcript” into evidence, with the consent of State and the petitioner, at the hearing in anticipation of its being admitted after completion.
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