Osmin Martinez v. State of Indiana

── Osmin Martinez v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 25A-CR-01401 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: February 12, 2026 Author: Judge Mary DeBoer County of Origin: Marion Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Brown and Judge Altice concur Martinez was born in Honduras in 1998 and lived there until moving to the United States in 2019. In the Summer of 2023, Martinez was living in a townhome in Indianapolis with several others, including a Guatemalan man named Angel Rodriguez. Martinez and Rodriguez both worked as roofers. One day, Martinez told Rodriguez’s girlfriend that she was dating “someone from Guatemala and . . . that he was going to kill him.” Transcript Vol. 2 at 184.