Mordacq v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant was operating her vehicle while intoxicated merely because she was found passed in the parked, running vehicle
• holding that “the three-hour limit expressed in I.C. 9-30-6-2(c) begins not from the moment an officer ideates probable cause, but rather from the moment at which the vehicle was operated in violation of I.C. 9-30-5”
• listing cases where defendants have been held to be operating vehicles when found at the wheel of a car with its engine running, including cases where the car was: on the median strip of a four-lane highway, Bowlin v. State, 330 N.E.2d 353 (1975
• comparing cases finding “operation” where defendant was found behind the Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 19A-CR-1639 | February 18, 2020 Page 7 of 13 wheel of a running vehicle in the median of a highway, at an intersection, and stopped in a lane of traffic

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).