The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 261, sponsored by Rep. Cox, allowing interlocutory criminal appeals by the Attorney General of a trial court’s order dismissing charges. Author Sen. Young presented the bill that was amended in the Senate to add a subsection (b) which would allow the State to challenge the sentence imposed in any appeal by a defendant, even if the defendant had not raised the sentence as an issue in his appeal. After testimony was received in favor of the bill without the added subsection, the Committee adopted an amendment deleting subsection (b) and passed the bill as amended 9-0.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/261.