Criminal law news
The South Bend Tribune reports, “Convicted killer to get new trial.”
The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a South Bend man’s murder conviction because the trial-court judge did not tell jurors that voluntary manslaughter was a possible verdict.
The unanimous court ordered a new trial for David P. Clark, who was convicted for the November 2003 stabbing death of Gregory Funches in South Bend.
Meanwhile the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette carries an editorial on “Juvenile jail assaults.”
