Legal Opinion
Pirnat v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided October 16, 1992No. 82S01-9210-CR-837PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
A jury found Steven W. Pirnat guilty of child molesting, a class D felony, Ind.Code Ann. § 85-42-4-8(d) (West 1986). The Court of Appeals affirmed. Pirnat v. State (1992), Ind.App., 596 N.E.2d 259.
Pirnat's petition for transfer alleges error in the introduction of certain evidence admitted to show his depraved sexual instinct. We have today in Lannan v. State, 600 N.E.2d 1334 (1992), revisited the depraved sexual instinct exception and announced a new rule concerning the admissibility of prior bad acts in sex offense cases. Inasmuch as Pirnat's appeal is currently…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Griffith v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Lannan v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1992
- Daniels v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1990
3Cited by22 opinions
- Smylie v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 2005
- Clemens v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1993
- Pirnat v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1993
- Dockery v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1994
- Pirnat v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1993
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