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Thomas Owens v. State of Indiana

── Thomas Owens v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 23A-CR-00985 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: December 11, 2023 Author: Judge Nancy Vaidik County of Origin: Marion Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Bradford and Judge Brown concur The evidence most favorable to the conviction is as follows. One night in January 2023, Owens’s wife was with Jacob Dugas in Dugas’s SUV at a CVS Pharmacy in Indianapolis. Owens went to the CVS and fought with Dugas in the parking lot. Surveillance footage provided to police by CVS showed that Owens ran from his car to the driver’s side of Dugas’s SUV holding a long, stick-like object. Dugas and Owens’s wife got out of the SUV, and after an interaction between Owens and Dugas behind the SUV, Owens and his wife walked away.
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Nancy Vaidik Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Cale Bradford Indiana Court of Appeals Judge
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