Joseph Albert Oberhansley v. State of Indiana

── Joseph Albert Oberhansley v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 20S-LW-00620 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: May 17, 2023 Author: Justice Christopher Goff County of Origin: Clark Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Oberhansley’s childhood in Utah was, by his own description, “good, or better than most.” App. Vol. X, p. 35. Nevertheless, he accumulated a string of juvenile adjudications for acts including assaults and burglaries. When Oberhansley was sixteen, his half-brother and his father both died by suicide. At around age seventeen, Oberhansley had a son with his then-girlfriend. He shot his girlfriend and his mother a few days after the birth, killing his girlfriend. He also shot himself in the head during this incident.