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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments in a domestic battery case Friday at Portage High School in Porter County. The traveling oral argument allows students, the public and press in other areas of the state to see how the court works.
With the support of the Porter and Lake County bar associations, students from 10 schools in the area, including Valparaiso University Law School, will attend the arguments.
Leonard Suggs threw a bowling ball while attending a family reunion, which struck a woman who was the sister of a man who had once been married to Suggs’ aunt. Suggs had called that woman “Auntie” when he was young. Suggs was convicted of Level 6 felony battery, which requires proof that the victim was a “family or household member” as defined by I.C. 35-315-2-128. Suggs argued the woman did not fall under that definition, but the Court of Appeals affirmed.
The case is Leonard Suggs v. State of Indiana, 02S03-1508-CR-510.
The argument will take place at 9:20 a.m. CDT in the East Auditorium of Portage High School. It is open to the press and public and those attending will be required to go through security.
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