Mr. Conner was convicted of killing 3 of his buddies and sentenced to death way back in 1988. The Court rejects Mr. Conner’s request for leave to file a new petition for post conviction relief, meaning that the Court will now set a new execution date. The court found that Mr. Conner’s new claims were procedurally defaulted because he failed to raise them earlier in the process, but even without the procedural default, he would not prevail on the new issues.
Case on transfer from the Court of Appeals, and I am sorry to see this one go. A state statute requires that license plates be displayed on the “rear” of vehicles. Mr. Merritt’s plates were in his back window, and he reasoned that this was the rear, so the officer should not have stopped him for improper display of plates. The court of appeals agreed, but the supreme court, reading several sections of Indiana’s masterfully written vehicle code, decides that the plates have to be securely fastened at the rear of the vehicle in a horizontal position, and illuminated by a white light so they can be seen at 50 feet.
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