The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee resumed discussion of SB 261, on the appeals by the attorney general in criminal and juvenile cases. Author Sen. R. Michael Young presented two amendments that were consolidated into a single amendment and adopted. The amendment clarifies that the State may take an interlocutory appeal of the dismissal of part of the charges filed in a case. It also would provide that the state may initiate an appeal of a legal error in a sentence and may, if a defendant appeals his/her sentence, take a cross-appeal of the length of the sentence imposed. The amended bill passed 10-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/261.