Ethane Potts v. State of Indiana

── Ethane Potts v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 24A-CR-02072 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: July 11, 2025 Author: Judge Nancy Vaidik County of Origin: St. Joseph Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Bailey and Judge DeBoer concur The evidence most favorable to the convictions and sentence is as follows. Potts and his victim, L.B., began dating in approximately 2017, during their freshman year of high school. They had an “on again off again” relationship over the next several years, Tr. Vol. II p. 237, and they have two young children. Potts and L.B. last had consensual sex in early July 2023, but by July 24 they had broken up and begun seeing other people. That day, L.B. was at work when she heard that Potts had impregnated another woman.