Ja'Shon Burks v. State of Indiana

── Ja'Shon Burks v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 24A-CR-03144 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: August 21, 2025 Author: Judge L. Mark Bailey County of Origin: Tippecanoe Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Brown and Judge Weissmann concur In the fall of 2019, Burks was hired as a choir director at Lafayette Jefferson High School. Around September 21, 2022, Burks informed Principal Mark Preston that he had been told that three of his female students had attended rehearsals under the influence of marijuana and had threatened to “accuse him of sexually harassing them” if he “tried to get them in trouble for that[.]” Tr. Vol. 2 at 140. Preston asked Burks, “[W]hy would they say something like that[?]” Id.