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Jones v. State

Citations

  • 847 N.E.2d 190
  • 2006 Ind. App. LEXIS 817
  • 2006 WL 1171811

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a case is moot when a court is unable to render effective relief to a party
  • holding that the good time credit statutes do not apply to a sentence for criminal contempt
  • observing that because the defendant was not afforded a jury trial or given the opportunity to waive her right to a jury trial, the trial court improperly sentenced her to a term exceeding 180 days for contempt
  • declining to apply the good-time credit statutes to Jones’s sanction for contempt because he was “not imprisoned for a crime”
  • under abuse of discretion standard, appellate courts will not determine credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bailey, Baker, Najam

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