Hatem Aziz v. State of Indiana

── Hatem Aziz v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 24A-CR-02981 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: September 15, 2025 Author: Judge Dana Kenworthy County of Origin: Marion Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Foley and Judge Scheele concur In January 2022, forty-one-year-old Aziz was the executive chef at an Indianapolis restaurant where twenty-year-old M.S. was the hostess. On January 7, Aziz, M.S., front-of-house manager Elizabeth Luker, and other staff members were drinking at the restaurant bar after closing. When the group left to go to a piano bar, M.S. hesitated to join because she was under twenty-one years old and did not think the bar would let her in. Although M.S. had consumed alcohol before, she had never been to a bar.