Search Boone Criminal Court Dockets

Boone County Criminal Docket Searches

Indiana MyCase is the first public search channel for non-confidential Boone County Circuit and Superior Court cases. Search by cause number when possible. A Boone cause number identifies the court with 06C01, 06D01, or 06D02. A name search can use last, first, middle or initial, birth date, or business name, plus court, open or closed status, and filing dates. The sounds-like option can help after an exact spelling fails, but a name alone never proves identity.

MyCase is free and does not require a public account. If the case or document is absent, contact the Boone County Clerk by phone, email, mail, or at the counter. Lisa Bruder's office is at 212 Courthouse Square, Lebanon, Indiana 46052, is posted open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and can be reached at 765-482-3510 or lbruder@co.boone.in.us. Ask whether a public terminal is available before relying on one, since Boone-specific terminal hours are not posted.

1. Open MyCase and choose Search by Case when the cause number is known. Enter one identifier at a time.
2. Otherwise use Search by Name, then narrow the results to a Boone County court, status, and filing range.
3. Match the court code, case type, filing date, and party role before opening the CCS.
4. Read the CCS from oldest to newest, separating charges and motions from later rulings and disposition entries.
5. Give the clerk the cause number, document title, approximate date, and desired format for a copy or file inspection.

Boone Criminal Court Assignment Codes

Boone County criminal dockets do not all go to one judge or one court. The current local caseload plan assigns OWI cases and specified traffic felonies to Superior Court II. Red Flag cases and a specified felony Driving While Suspended category go to Superior Court I. Some offenses are reserved for Circuit Court. Other cases are allocated by a clerk-run random draw, which makes the court code an essential search field.

Remaining Level 6 felonies split evenly between Circuit and Superior II. Remaining Level 5-or-higher felonies use a 30 percent Circuit, 50 percent Superior I, and 20 percent Superior II allocation. Those percentages explain venue; they do not imply guilt, severity, or likely result.

Criminal Dockets: What They Show

The Boone County criminal docket is an official sequence of judicial events, not a transcript. Indiana Trial Rule 77 calls it the CCS. Its header and entries help distinguish what was filed, what the court ruled, and what happened at a setting. The broader case file may hold the actual motions, orders, returns, and evidence. A public MyCase view can show only a subset.

Charges Are Not Boone Convictions

A filed charge, probable-cause entry, or charging information starts part of the Boone County criminal docket. It does not show that the court entered a conviction. A motion also is not a ruling. Read forward for a plea agreement, dismissal, verdict, judgment, sentence, or transfer, then check whether an appeal or later modification follows.

The MyCase status label can help, but “closed” is not a complete account of every charge or payment. Financial data may lag. A zero public balance is not a certified satisfaction, and a balance does not prove the final outcome. For an official disposition, use the clerk's record rather than an isolated portal line.

Note: A CCS entry date records when the notation was made, so it can differ from the date a hearing occurred.

Criminal Case Stages on the Docket

A typical Boone County criminal docket begins with charging or probable-cause material when public. The initial hearing addresses the charge, plea, bond, and counsel. Pretrial conferences then deal with motions, document exchange, and trial readiness. Later entries can record discovery notices, release terms, a trial setting, continuance, plea agreement, dismissal, verdict, judgment, sentence, probation, restitution, appeal, or modification. Not every case follows each stage, and restricted records may not appear online.

Docket flow: Filing › Initial Hearing › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing

Boone Drug Court Record Layers

Boone County Drug Court is a Circuit Court collaborative program built around treatment, monitoring, supervision, sanctions, incentives, and rehabilitation. The underlying criminal CCS may record referral, a status appearance, compliance event, sanction, or disposition. That public sequence is not the same as the program's treatment or case-management file.

The official Drug Court page is shown in the assigned source capture below. It helps identify the named local program and its courthouse contact, while the CCS remains the source for the public judicial sequence.

Program completion may lead to dismissal or a shorter probation term according to the county page, but only the case-specific CCS or clerk record establishes the actual result.

Boone County Criminal Docket Courts

Boone Circuit, Superior I, and Superior II are all part of the county criminal docket system and have been listed as Odyssey participants since February 21, 2017. Their public non-confidential records normally appear through MyCase. Refiled dismissed matters return to the original court under the local rule, related cases from the same episode stay together, and a transfer or special-judge assignment should create a CCS entry.

Municipal jurisdiction requires a separate check. Zionsville Town Court is current and has its own clerical route. Lebanon City Court was reestablished in 2024, but it was not listed on the reviewed Odyssey participation page. Thorntown, Jamestown, and Whitestown town courts are abolished under current Administrative Rule 8. Historical results can retain an old court code, so compare the filing date with the current rule rather than assuming that every municipal identifier names an active court.

Requesting Boone Criminal Documents

The clerk's disposition and document request form provides a targeted route when MyCase does not supply the needed paper. It asks for the requester's name, email, and phone; the defendant's name; an optional cause number; prepaid-account status; and a choice of Probable Cause, Charging, Sentencing, Revocations, or Other. Supplying the cause number and exact document limits confusion.

Mail and counter requests remain available through the Boone County Clerk. Phone and email can confirm the current procedure, copy cost, and turnaround. Indiana E-Filing System is for submitting filings through an approved service provider, not for public docket viewing. For a general county administrative record rather than a court case document, Boone's APRA form offers inspection, paid copy, mail, or PDF email if possible.

Boone Criminal Balances Can Lag

MyCase warns that its public financial data may be incomplete. Boone's clerk page lists criminal court costs of $185 plus other fees on a schedule effective July 1, 2021, but that posted line is not a case-specific payoff. Payments, restitution, later costs, and satisfaction entries can change the amount. Confirm a current balance with the clerk and supply the cause number.

Access Rules for Criminal Dockets

Indiana begins with a presumption of access to court records, but Boone County criminal dockets can contain excluded or redacted material. Victim and witness contact details, presentence reports, medical information, protected exhibits, sealed filings, and expunged material may be withheld. A public case shell or “confidential” marker does not make the hidden document public. Conversely, a missing MyCase attachment does not prove that no document exists.

Ask the clerk what request or court authorization applies to an excluded record. The full public case-search workflow is also covered through the county's docket search resource. For a certified CCS, disposition, or order, rely on the Boone County Clerk rather than a screenshot.