Legal Opinion

Alvarado v. Nagy

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided December 21, 2004No. 48A02-0403-CV-273PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

FRIEDLANDER, Judge.

John Alvarado, pro se, appeals the dismissal of the complaint he filed against Sarah Nagy, the attorney who represented him in an unsuccessful attempt to secure a modification of a sentence he was serving. The complaint was dismissed, upon Nagy's motion, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

We reverse.

The facts are that at all times relevant to this appeal, Alvarado was incarcerated at the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton, Indiana. In May 2002, Alvarado hired Nagy to represent him in an effort to modify his sentence. According to the contract,…

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