eDDIE'S LEGAL
DOCUMENTS

GLOSSARY OF LEGAL TERMS

Definitions retrieved from United States Courts (Glossary of Legal Terms)

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Case Summary: (NEW)

Offense Date April 13, 2007 

Original Case Number: 31D01-0805-FA-000389

Court of Appeals Case Number: 31A01-1703-PC-00547

Note: This Case Summary contains not only the files listed below,

but original Police Reports and explicit case exhibits.

[Click the 2 file symbol next to the file you wish to download.]

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Comfort House Interview of Alleged Victim

Transcript April 18, 2008 - Alleged Victim (Child) at Comfort House 1 year after offense.

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Full Court Transcript

Click the link above for the entire transcript.

Click one of the entries below to view each sub-part of the full transcript's table of contents.

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Pre-Trial Hearing

Transcript: September 22, 2008

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Depositions

September 30, 2008: Alleged victim - Child

September 30, 2008: Mother

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Hearing on 404B & Hearsay Evidence

Transcript: November 14, 2008

Definition of Rule 404B: generally, bars character evidence.

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Jury Trial

Transcript: November 18-21, 2008

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State Presents its Evidence

Witness #1 - Child (Alleged Victim)

Witness #2 - Stepfather of alleged victim

Witness #3 - Mother of victim

Witness #4 - Donna Lloyd Black (Comfort House)

Witness #5 - Kevin Bowling (Indiana State Trooper)

Witness #6 - William Wibbels (Indiana State Detective)

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Defendant (Eddie) Presents his Evidence

Witness #1 - Lawrence Edward Nunley

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State Presents Rebuttal Evidence

Witness #1 - William Wibbels (Indiana State Detective)

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Closing Arguments

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Sentence Hearing

Transcript: January 15, 2009

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Direct Appeal

November 16, 2009 - Case No. 31A01-1703-PC-00547

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Post Conviction Relief (PCR)

PCR: October 7, 2010 - Cause #31D01-1009-PC-11

This link contains all the Orders, Brief - Appellee, Post Conviction Relief and Transcript.

Definition: a legal process in which a criminal defendant challenges the legality of some portion of the criminal trial, the judgment of conviction, or the sentence on legal grounds that were unknown or unavailable in the original trial or on direct appeal.

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Federal Habeas Corpus

Petition filed: January 8, 2019 - Civil Docket No. 2:19-cv-00012-JRS-DLP

This link currently contains the Petition of Writ of Habeas Corpus and Notice of Appeal and Request for a Certificate of Appealability.

Definition: Used to attack an unlawful detention or illegal imprisonment.

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Supreme Court Appeal

Petition filed: February 12, 2021 - Supreme Court Docket No. 20-1657.

Definition: A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it. The writ of certiorari is a common law writ, which may be abrogated or controlled entirely by statute or court rules. This also means that the court is often not under any obligation to hear the petitioned cases.

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Criminal History

This is a timeline of all infractions on public record. 

     - Criminal Misdemeanors

     - Small Claims

     - Infractions

     - Mortgage Foreclosure

     - Class A Felony: Child Molestation

     - Class D Felony: Illegal Drugs

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Findings on the Case

As the staff at Free-Eddie.com have researched this case, we have formulated a number of questions that pose "holes" in Eddie's case. Click this link to see a list of concerns that we have addressed with many resources including the Notre Dame Exoneration Clinic.

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