The Senate Judiciary Committee heard SB 433, authored by Sens. Tomes and Waltz, on shotguns. This bill repeals the prohibition against manufacturing, importing, selling, or possessing a sawed-off shotgun. It also provides for a 10-year sentence enhancement if a person possesses a sawed-off shotgun in violation of federal law while committing certain offenses. The National Rifle … [Read more...] about Shotguns
Criminal
Crime fighting pilot
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard SB 551, Sen. Waltz’s bill to establish crime fighting pilot projects in Marion, Lake, and Allen Counties, with an annual appropriation of $200,000 for each of the counties to be used only to pay overtime for officers assigned to a high crime district. Law enforcement officers from the chosen counties testified in support of the … [Read more...] about Crime fighting pilot
Crimes of violence
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard SB 559, Sen. R. Michael Young’s bill to make a number of changes to crimes of violence. Sen. Young explained that the bill adds unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon to the definition of "crimes of violence." The bill establishes new caps for consecutive sentences that result from a single episode of c … [Read more...] about Crimes of violence
Expungement
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard HB 1302, Rep. McMillin’s expungement bill. The bill addresses a number of issues concerning the IC 35-38-9 expungement remedy: (1) it expands the arrest expungement remedy to include criminal charges or delinquency allegations which did not lead to a conviction or adjudication; (2) it specifies that a person seeking to expunge a c … [Read more...] about Expungement
Video conferencing by confined persons
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard HB 1531, Rep. Davisson’s bill on video conferencing by confined persons. The bill provides (1) court hearings by video conference for inmates in DOC facilities with video conferencing capacity, and (2) mental health evaluations of inmates in county jails ordered to be conducted via video conference with the mental health services p … [Read more...] about Video conferencing by confined persons