Joce-Joce Sergio Bueno v. State of Indiana

── Joce-Joce Sergio Bueno v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 24A-CR-03077 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: June 30, 2025 Author: Judge Elaine Brown County of Origin: St. Joseph Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Bailey and Judge Weissmann concur On May 21, 2024, Nichole Gerick and her seventeen-year-old son, K.C., were at Bueno’s new apartment “dropping off his couch” and helping him move the couch into his apartment. Transcript Volume II at 94. Gerick and Bueno “were in the middle of a breakup” at that time and he was “screaming at her” as they moved the couch. Id. at 100. The full-size couch was very difficult to move because they had to try to “hoist” it to “get it over the, [the apartment] had like a porch with a banister on it.” Id.