Disfranchisement of prisoners
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Valenti v. Lawson (2018)
Most recently applied in Valenti v. Lawson (May 2018)
As added by P.L.12-1995, SEC.22.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 4. (a) A person who is:
(1) convicted of a crime; and
(2) imprisoned following conviction;
is deprived of the right of suffrage by the general assembly pursuant to Article 2, Section 8 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.
(b) A person described in subsection (a) is ineligible to register under this article during the period that the person is:
(1) imprisoned; or
(2) otherwise subject to lawful detention.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.