How to Search Criminal Dockets
MyCase, also called Odyssey Public Access, is the free online home for nonconfidential Greene County criminal court dockets. No account is needed. The Case tab takes a cause number, citation number, or cross reference. Use one identifier at a time. The Name tab wants last, first, and middle names plus a birth date. The Attorney tab works with counsel's name or bar number. Pick Greene Circuit Court or Greene Superior Court. Filter by criminal case type, status, or filing dates only if you must.
A full cause number beats everything else. Searching by name alone means checking the filing date, court, and case type before you open a result. MyCase can return up to 1,000 results, and broad queries drown in noise. The display helps, though. It is not a certified record.
- Choose Case, Name, or Attorney and enter the best identifier.
- Select Greene Circuit or Greene Superior.
- Match the cause number, filing date, court, and case type.
- Open the CCS and locate the newest relevant event.
- Ask the clerk for a copy or certification when needed.
Greene Criminal Docket Codes
Indiana's docket timeline is the Chronological Case Summary, or CCS. A current cause number has four groups. Greene County starts with code 28. The next unit splits 28C01 Circuit Court from 28D01 Superior Court, and the filing year and month come after that, followed by a case-type code and sequence. Criminal families include CF, CM, and F1 through F6. Those are filing labels only. They say nothing about guilt.
CF: a felony criminal case family.
CM: a misdemeanor criminal case family.
FTA: failure to appear; the event and order control its effect.
CCS: the chronological list of case events.
The Greene clerk publishes no abbreviation sheet. Read nearby entries and ask the clerk when a code stays unclear.
MyCase may forgive missing punctuation and leading zeros. Still, the complete cause number is the best search value. A transferred cause can show a changed court identifier while its filing sequence still helps. When an exact search fails, retry without punctuation. Switch to the other Greene court, then search by party name. A code alone never tells you what a case was about or how it ended. The CCS holds the real filing, charge, setting, and disposition history.
What a Criminal Docket Shows
A Greene County criminal CCS opens with cause number, court, case type, file date, status, and judicial officer where shown. Party and attorney blocks identify public roles. Charges can carry a citation, offense date, statute, degree, original degree, and any modification. Event rows log filings, hearings, motions, orders, resets, pleas, sentence, and review work. A linked file sits on a separate layer. An event with no PDF can still reflect a filing in the official record.
| Case Number | 28D01-YYMM-CM-###### identifies county, court, month, type, and sequence. |
|---|---|
| Charges | Public statute, date, degree, citation, and change fields. |
| Settings | Date, time, description, officer, result, and later resets. |
| Bond | Number, amount, status, date, and linked events when public. |
| Disposition | Plea, trial, dismissal, conviction, sentence, or other result. |
Read status and history together. A closed label does not open every filing to the public.
Greene Charge and Bond Blocks
The MyCase charge block separates a filed allegation from the eventual outcome. It may keep both an original class and a modification on screen. The chronology adds context through probable-cause filings, initial appearance, plea, and disposition. Never read the first charge row as the final result.
Bond data may sit in its own panel or inside orders and events. Greene publishes recurring bond schedule material. That schedule is an operating guide, not a live finding for one person. The signed order and current CCS control. Compare the newest bond event, status, and next setting. Then confirm anything uncertain with the court.
Stages on a Criminal Docket
A Greene County criminal court docket can begin with a complaint, information, indictment, citation, or probable-cause filing. Initial appearance or arraignment comes next, covering rights, counsel, plea, and release terms where shown. Pretrial work may pile on discovery, motions, conferences, and several settings. Each reset stays in the chronology. An old date can linger on screen long after it stops controlling anything.
Docket flow: Charge Filed › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
Resolution might be a plea, trial ruling, dismissal, nolle prosequi, diversion-type result where allowed, or conviction. Later entries can cover sentence, costs, probation, restitution, review, revocation, forfeiture, closure, or appeal. Read the exact event words.
Greene Circuit or Superior?
Superior Court has exclusive assignment when every count is a misdemeanor, Class D felony, Level 6 felony, or Indiana Code 9-30-5 offense, and it also hears infractions and minor violations. Other criminal matters are concurrent. Odyssey random draw can send them to Circuit or Superior, and a judge may transfer a cause.
Search both when unsure. A charge level may not reveal the current court after a transfer or related filing. Check both 28C01 and 28D01.
A blank search in one court does not mean no Greene County criminal docket exists. The unified clerk maintains both dockets, and each cause keeps its own court code.
Which Court Holds Criminal Dockets
Two courts of record handle Greene County criminal work. They are Greene Circuit and Greene Superior, both at 1 East Main Street in Bloomfield. The Greene County Clerk of Courts backs them both. It runs the docket, filing, payment, and copy counter from PO Box 229. Call the clerk at 812-384-8532, Circuit at 812-384-4325, or Superior at 812-384-3492. Counter hours run Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
MyCase does not carry every older event or file. When something is missing, go to the counter, phone the clerk, or mail a request. That request should name the cause number and the exact item you want. Entitled parties and attorneys can use the Indiana Public Portal instead. Transcripts come from the court reporter, not the CCS. Judicial access rules control anything excluded from the record.
A good request points to an existing item. That means the CCS, charging paper, an order, a judgment, or the fee ledger. Add the cause number, the court, and a helpful date range. Indiana's Access to Public Records Act can govern a county-held record. Judicial access rules govern the court file itself. The clerk will not build a fresh report or chase a broad research question. Plain copies run $1 per page, and certification costs $3 for each certification.
Missing Greene Criminal PDFs
A missing PDF often means the document simply is not open to anonymous remote view. Start with the event text and the orders around it. If you are entitled, try the Public Portal next. The clerk can supply a plain or certified filing, and the reporter handles testimony.
Older Greene County causes may sit on microfilm. Some sit in bound volumes. Give the clerk the cause number. Add the court, date range, and document title. Indiana's court-record request guidance explains how clerk files differ from transcripts. It also spells out MyCase limits. One precise request beats asking staff to research a whole topic.
Greene Trial Cause Appeals
An appeal opens its own appellate cause. Yet the Greene County criminal CCS can still show the notice and transfer events tying the two records together. One official Indiana Supreme Court opinion shows that bridge clearly. It identifies the Greene Superior trial cause it came from. The trial CCS stays the source for local filings, hearings, and disposition events. The appellate docket records review of the judgment.
Filing an appeal does not erase or pause every duty back at the trial court. Read the actual orders from both courts. Look for a stay, affirmance, reversal, remand, or other direction. After a remand, expect new Greene County criminal docket events to follow the appellate decision.
Public Access and Sealed Criminal Dockets
Indiana Administrative Rule 9 presumes court records are public. But Rule 5, statutes, and court orders shield certain cases, filings, and data. Juvenile, mental-health, sealed, and expungement-restricted cases may be missing or masked. So may protection-order, privileged, and some investigative material. Victim and witness data, account numbers, and other identifiers get redacted. A public header can even remain while a filing inside it is excluded.
Key access rules:
Rule 5 identifies confidential cases, documents, and protected data.
Rule 6 governs extraordinary exclusion.
Rule 9 supplies a verified route to seek an excluded record.
No results? Retry the number, the spelling, the dates, and the other court. Then ask whether the cause is old, confidential, sealed, expunged, or filed somewhere else. An empty public search proves nothing about guilt, innocence, dismissal, or whether the case exists.
Protection-order cases travel a separate route, and juvenile material carries special limits. A granted expungement can pull a cause out of ordinary public results. It does not destroy the court record. Where a lawful basis exists to seek excluded material, Rule 9 sets a process. It requires a verified written request. Notice must follow. A response and hearing may come. The judge must then issue a written decision on the request.