Legal Opinion

David Jones v. Dushan Zatecky

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided February 28, 2019No. 17-2606PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Wood, Chief Judge.

At the time of David Jones's arrest and prosecution in 2005, Ind. Code § 35-34-1-5 (1982) identified an "omnibus date" and allowed prosecutors to make substantive amendments to pending charges only up to 30 days before the omnibus date.1 Seven *580years earlier, in a case called Haak v. State , 695 N.E.2d 944, 951 (Ind. 1998), the Indiana Supreme Court had confirmed the strict nature of this deadline. Disregarding this rule, in Jones's case the state moved nine days after the omnibus date to amend the charging instrument to add a new and highly consequential charge of criminal…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  3. Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
  4. Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Penry v. LynaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1989

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Phillip Hartsfield v. Stephanie DorethyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2020
  2. Jeffery Bridges v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2021
  3. David Jones v. Rodney CummingsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2021
  4. DeWayne Perry v. Richard BrownCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2020
  5. Antonio Ramirez, Jr. v. Lizzie TegelsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2020

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