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Clark County Judge Adams Indicted As Result Of Shooting

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Clark Circuit Judge Andrew Adams has been indicted on seven counts and is facing suspension from the practice of law as a result of the May 1 early morning shooting in downtown Indianapolis that left him and Clark Circuit Judge Bradley Jacobs severely injured.

Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced the indictment against Adams, as well as Brandon Kaiser and Alfredo Vazquez, Friday at his office. The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications filed a request that Adams be suspended with pay a short time later.

Kaiser, 41, was indicted on 14 counts, including four counts of aggravated battery as a Level 3 felony, and two counts of battery with a deadly weapon as a Level 5 felony. Adams and Vazquez were indicted on identical charges including two counts of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury as a Level 6 felony and two counts of batter resulting in bodily injury as a Class A misdemeanor.

The grand jury declined to file charges against Jacobs.

Larry Wilder, the Jeffersonville attorney who has been serving as a spokesman for Adams and Jacobs, did not respond to a request for a comment by IL deadline.

Curry said his office is coordinating with the attorneys representing Adams, Kaiser and Vazquez to arrange their surrender, which he anticipates will happen early next week.

Curry repeatedly called this case complex and declined to release many details, but he did hint at what contributed to the difficulty.

“In situations where it appears to us that self-defense will be a potential issue, it’s not unprecedented that those are matters that we have presented to the grand jury in the past to let the grand jury sort it out because that is such a fact-sensitive subject,” Curry said. “Once we reviewed everything, as I said, we felt there was just any number of possible results or conclusions that could flow from a jury reviewing the evidence that was presented.”

For this case, the prosecutor said a second grand jury was empaneled June 7, in addition to the grand jury that is regularly empaneled. This is the first time Curry said he could recall that a second grand jury has been convened. Evidence was presented to both grand juries this week.

Also, according to Curry, all four individuals were granted use immunity solely to provide testimony for the proceeding in which they were the alleged victims.

“In reviewing all the information and evidence that had been provided to us, it was our opinion that there were numerous significant legal and factual issues arising from this investigation,” Curry said. “Depending upon how those issues were resolved, it was possible for a variety of results, including the possibility that all four individuals involved in the incident could be charge with a crime.”

According to the indictment of Kaiser, he was charged with aggravated battery for shooting at or against Adams and Jacobs with a firearm and knowingly inflicting injury.

Adams’ charges came from hitting and wrestling Vazquez in a manner that resulted in bodily injury and kicking Kaiser, according to the indictment. Likewise, Vazquez was charged with hitting and kicking Adams and Jacobs.

Friday afternoon, the JQC filed a motion to suspend Adams with pay.

The commission filed a Notice of Criminal Charges and Request for Suspension against Adams immediately upon learning of the felony indictment, the Indiana Supreme Court announced Friday.

The request asks that Adams be suspended with pay from his position as judge of Clark Circuit Court 1 pending further order of the court or a final determination of any disciplinary proceeding that may result from the criminal charges.

Curry could not provide any details on what happened May 1 other than to say there was a fight.

As previously reported, Adams and Jacobs were outside a White Castle restaurant near downtown Indianapolis. The pair were in town to attend the Spring Judicial Conference.

The judges were taken to the hospital, treated and eventually returned to their Clark County homes to recover a little more than two weeks after the shooting. Other than a few text messages from Jacobs to some of his friends, the judges have not spoken publicly.

Indianapolis residents Kaiser, 41, and Vazquez, 24, were arrested a few days later for their alleged roles in the shooting. However, after appearing in court, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office declined to press charges and the two men were released.

AGELESS WISDOM

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AGELESS WISDOM

By Jim Redwine

When Jeanne and Nathan Maudlin as representatives of New Harmony, Indiana’s Working Men’s Institute  that along with the University of Southern Indiana and the New Harmony Kiwanis Club is helping sponsor this year’s New Harmony Fourth of July celebration asked me to speak, my first thought was to research prior speeches. I am a judge after all and precedent is important to me. Jeanne graciously sent me a copy of the excellent book, New Harmony’s Fourth of July Tradition, by Donald Pitzer and Josephine Elliott.

The book includes verbatim Fourth of July speeches given by Robert Owen (1826), William Owen (1827) and Frances (Mad Fanny) Wright (1828). Each talk contains observations and advice that address issues that could have been found on the front pages of today’s newspapers or on T.V. news programs. War and peace, racial problems, women’s rights, religious discrimination and freedom of thought and action are exposited clearly.

Independence as declared on July 04, 1776 and our country’s often slow and incremental progress toward accomplishing the ideals encapsulated in our Constitution are referenced or implied in each address. As Frances Wright explained, the genius of our Founders was they gave us a government that we could change if we needed and wanted. Mad Fanny was called mad in 1828 because she called for freedom from religion, freedom for enslaved Negroes, equality for women and liberty from wars of aggression for the United States of America and all other countries. As not so mad Fanny might observe today, America has made substantial progress toward these ideals through incremental, democratic, constitutional change. Of course, we still have work to do.

In his address on July 04, 1827 William Owen, Robert’s twenty-five year old son, concentrated on the evils of superstition and bloody wars of aggression as egged on by various religions. And William Owen thanked the heroes of July 04, 1776 for fighting for our liberty and freedom of speech:

“Are we prepared to exercise the right, as we enjoy the power, secured to us by the heroes
of the revolution, of expressing our thoughts openly and sincerely? Are we willing to run
the risks they encountered? Are we ready like them to meet the prejudices of past times, to
risk name and reputation in the cause of truth, – in defense of the honest expression of our
opinions?”

William both recognized the sacrifices made by our Founders and cautioned of the repercussions should we fail to follow our own Constitution:

“Man had been slowly but gradually freeing himself from that thraldom in which he was
so long enslaved, when our ancestors, on that day, the anniversary of which we this
morning celebrate, by one bold step recovered that state of liberty and independence, which
is the birthright of humanity, and gave a death blow, to the unnatural league between
despotism and superstition, by the adoption of a Constitution, which forever precludes, so
long as adhered to, the recurrence of such an unhappy connection.”

Robert Owen, whose vision of humanity and equality was the bedrock of the secular commune of New Harmony, 1825-1828 (c), on July 04, 1826 fearlessly stated his view as to the root cause of the world’s evils:

“Religion, or Superstition – for all religions have proved themselves to be Superstitions, –
by destroying the judgment, irrationalized all the mental faculties of man, and made him
the most abject slave, through the fear of non-entities created solely by his own disordered
imagination.”

Owen was a wealthy industrialist who cared about his workers and their families. He put in place many of the better conditions of employment that eventually were adopted by the United States of America, and other countries. Owen fought for women’s equality, freedom from religion and the avoidance of wars of aggression. And along with numerous other idealists such as his own sons, William Maclure of the Working  Men’s Institute fame and Frances Wright, Robert Owen established a legacy that all of us in Posey County should treasure.

Gentle Reader, if you wish to help carry on New Harmony’s Fourth of July traditions of celebrating our Independence, the festivities begin the morning of July 04, 2019 at the Atheneum in New Harmony. Peg and I plan to be there and look forward to the reading of the Declaration of Independence by our friend Chuck Minnette as well as a golf cart parade, hot dogs and patriotic music. Hope to see you there. Happy birthday!

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“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB” JUNE 29, 2019

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“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB”

“Right Jab And Left Jab” was created because we have two commenters that post on a daily basis either in our “IS IT TRUE” or “Readers Forum” columns concerning National or International issues.
Joe Biden and Ronald Reagan’s comments are mostly about issues of national interest.  The majority of our “IS IT TRUE” columns are about local or state issues, so we have decided to give Mr. Biden and Mr. Reagan exclusive access to our newly created “LEFT JAB and RIGHT JAB”  column. They now have this post to exclusively discuss national or world issues that they feel passionate about.
We shall be posting the “LEFT JAB” AND “RIGHT JAB” several times a week.  Oh, “Left Jab” is a liberal view and the “Right Jab is representative of the more conservative views. Also, any reader who would like to react to the written comments of the two gentlemen is free to do so.

FOOTNOTE: Any comments posted in this column do not represent the views or opinions of the City-County Observer or our advertisers.

Oldies Soldies Love Jam Concert Coming Sept. 21! Discount Deadline Extended!

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Daily Scriptures

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MONDAY

“If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 NLT

TUESDAY

“If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans andpossessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, butdidn’t love others, I would be nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:2 NLT

WEDNESDAY

“If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I couldboast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:3 NLT

THURSDAY

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud” 1 Corinthians 13:4 NLT

FRIDAY

“or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.”
1 Corinthians 13:5 NLT

SATURDAY

“It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 NLT

SUNDAY

“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT

Submitted to the City-County Observer by Karen Seltzer

Federal Authorities Join Operation To Stop Robocalls

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Staff Report
TheStatehouseFile.com

INDIANAPOLIS—Robocall numbers have gone up to the point where Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is creating an operation to prevent these illegal calls from ever happening in the first place.

“Operation Call it Quits” announced 94 actions targeting operations around the country. The operation is aimed to help prevent these prerecorded calls from getting through and as well as educating the public about them.

The operation includes four cases and three new settlements. Two of those cases were filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on the behalf of the FTC. Defendants in the cases were responsible for more than a billion robocalls nationwide.

Due to these phone scams, Americans had lost an estimated $10.5 billion in 2018. In Indiana, residents reported losing more than $16 million. The most vulnerable are elderly because they don’t necessarily realize they are being scammed, and sometimes fail to say something because of intimidation or embarrassment.

“We’re all fed up with the tens of billions of illegal robocalls we get every year,” said Andrew Smith, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a news release. Combatting robocalls is a top priority for law enforcement agencies around the nation.

Some of the cases filed go beyond just a phone call. Since at least 2017, the defendants have also used text messaging, internet ads, emails, and social media to scam users into giving up their information, according to the FTC’s complaint against five corporate and four individual defendants.

Attorney General Curtis Hill was the only state attorney general attending the national press conference in Chicago that announced “Operation Call it Quits.”

Hill discussed his office’s recent civil complaint against a Maryland company and two individuals after receiving dozens of consumer complaints. Of those who complained, all but one had telephone numbers registered on the Indiana Do Not Call List.

TheStatehouseFile.com is a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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Walter McCarty Leadership Academy Day Camp a huge success

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UE men’s and women’s basketball teams welcomed local youth

 It was just a year ago that University of Evansville head men’s basketball coach Walter McCarty, women’s basketball head coach Matt Ruffing and Old National Bank joined forces to help local youth through the formation of the Walter McCarty Leadership Academy.

On Friday, one of the most influential aspects of this partnership took place with the Walter McCarty Leadership Academy Day Camp taking place on the UE campus.

“It means a lot to see all of the kids so excited to be here and have the chance to be in the gym and around our men’s and women’s players,” McCarty said.  “Just seeing their smiles means a lot to us and shows us that we are doing the right thing.

“Having those kids in here to play basketball, do other activities in the gym and a pizza party is something we hope will be very special to each one of them.  It’s just a great day.”

Purple Aces head women’s basketball coach Matt Rufffing also enjoyed the opportunity his team had to give back to the community and provide a unique experience to local youth.

“It is a lot of fun to see all of the faces and the excitement the moment they walk through the door,” Ruffing explained.  “The chance they get to have access to the facilities and our players is something that not everyone gets.  It is just a special day.”

Campers began the day with donuts and an introduction to the staff and players.  From there, they spent time with each basketball team doing drills, a dance contest and much more.  The day was completed with a pizza party as campers got to enjoy more one-on-one time with the UE basketball squads.

Old National Bank Evansville Region President and Southern Region CEO Sara Miller was on hand to welcome the campers and watch the activities.

“We are really glad to be part of the Walter Leadership Academy,” Miller said.  “To bring these kids together for the camp and the experience they are receiving today is a game changer.  We are thrilled to be able to offer it.”

 

Four Otters get selected for All-Star Game in New York

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Four players on the Evansville Otters roster have been selected as Frontier League All-Stars, the league announced Friday.

In a change of format, the All-Star Game will take place Wednesday, July 10 from Palisades Credit Union Park in New York as the Frontier League All-Stars will take on the Can-Am League All-Stars. The Rockland Boulders will host the festivities presented by Good Samaritan Hospital. This will mark the first time that these two Independent Professional leagues will face each other.

“The Can-Am League couldn’t be prouder that we are hosting the Frontier League in the 2019 All Star Game,” Can-Am League Executive Director Kevin Winn said.  “They bring 27 years of tradition with them as the oldest continuously operating independent league. I want to thank Commissioner Bill Lee, President Rich Sauget, all the Owners, Executives, Coaching Staff and Players. Two Premier Leagues facing off in a Premier Ballpark.”

Voters in the league-wide process included broadcasters, general managers, field managers, coaches and local media.

“We are extremely pleased and excited to be playing the Can-Am League All-Stars,” Frontier League Commissioner Bill Lee said. “Everyone is looking forward to coming to the New York area. This is an unprecedented game for our League. We want to thank all the owners, teams and Executive Director Kevin Winn for making this possible. Above all, we want to thank Shawn Reilly and the entire Rockland Boulders staff for their hard work.”

Last season, Evansville sent eight players to complete in the All-Star Game in the former Rookie against Experienced players format.

Position players Ryan Long, Carlos Castro, Rob Calabrese were selected from the Otters along with relief pitcher Taylor Wright.

“I’m happy and proud to be sending these four players to represent the Otters and the Frontier League at this year’s All-Star Game,” Otters manager Andy McCauley said.

Ryan Long, making his second All-Star appearance, was selected as a starter at third base for the Frontier League.

The reigning Frontier League Player of the Week is hitting .286 with a seven home runs, a league-leading 36 RBIs, 25 runs, 42 hits, and 11 doubles.

“Ryan is the best third baseman in the league and one of the top hitters,” McCauley said. “His numbers speak for themselves over the last few seasons since he joined the Otters.”

“I’m excited and feel honored to represent Evansville and the Otters in this year’s All-Star Game,” Long said. “There is a lot of talent in this league and it is going to be fun to square up against another league’s all-star team.”

Long’s seven home runs are tied for the league lead with four other players including Carlos Castro, who will be making his first All-Star Game appearance.

Castro entered Friday batting .286 with 19 RBIs, 10 doubles, 20 runs and 44 hits. Castro has also made some impressive defensively at first base.

“After last year’s struggles with injury, it’s nice to see Carlos have good health this season and receive this recognition,” McCauley said. “He is a true power bat.”

“His mother lives in Manhattan and this will be the first time she gets to see him play.”

“I feel great and honored to be chosen for the All-Star Game,” Castro. “I’m really excited that my mother will get to watch me play.”

“It was be the first time my mother gets to see me play baseball after living in Manhattan the last four years. It will be special.”

Catcher Rob Calabrese also made the Frontier League’s All-Star squad after appearing in 30 games for Evansville so far this season. He has a .293 average and 16 RBIs to go along with 14 runs, 10 doubles, and five home runs.

“Calabrese made huge strides offensively once given the chance to play every day,” McCauley said. “He’s showing that he is a complete catcher with his impressive receiving and throwing ability.”

“It’s an honor to be one of the few picked to play in the All-Star Game,” said Calabrese.

“It’s also pretty cool that it’s so close to home so my close friends and family can come see me play for the first time in a while. I’m looking forward to it!”

After losing a few All-Star caliber pitchers to affiliated baseball organizations, the Otters have shown the pitching depth this season.

Relief pitcher Taylor Wright was selected to his first All-Star Game in his first year with the Otters.

“I couldn’t be happier with Taylor’s selection to the All-Star Game,” McCauley said. “He is a testimony to hard work and dedication that is now paying off.”

“Taylor has thrown in many different roles for us and has excelled in each of them this season.”

Wright has impressed so far this season, posting a 1.11 ERA with four saves and 30 strikeouts in 24.1 innings pitched. In 17 games this season, Wright has allowed an earned run in only two games.

“It’s an honor to be included on the team,” Wright said. “I think having so many Otters on the team shows what a great job the organization does with helping their players succeed and get the most out of their abilities.”

All-Star events begin with the All-Star Charitable Luncheon featuring New York Yankees’ broadcaster John Sterling on Tuesday, July 9. The Home Run Derby takes place that night and features former New York Yankees and Mets players Mookie Wilson, Jesse Barfield, and John Flaherty.

The Can-Am League vs. Frontier League All-Star Game presented by WMC Health/Good Samaritan Hospital is Wednesday, July 10. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.rocklandboulders.com/allstarsummer2019

 

Otters sweep the Boomers in 7-2 win

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For the first time this season, the Evansville Otters earned a three-game sweep, defeating the Schaumburg Boomers 7-2 in Thursday’s series finale.

The Otters were able to give starting pitcher Austin Nicely early run support in Thursday’s contest.

In the second inning, Carlos Castro hit a solo home run over the centerfield wall to give the Otters an early 1-0 lead.

In the third, after a David Cronin walk and a single by Keith Grieshaber, Ryan Long smacked a two-run triple to extend the Otters lead to three, picking up his 35th and 36th RBIs of the season.

In the top of the fourth, the Boomers scored their first run of the series when Brock Carpenter scored Nick Oddo on an RBI double to make the score 3-1. It ended a 21.1 scoreless inning streak for the Boomers, as they were shutout by Evansville on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Otters responded in the bottom of the fifth, sending seven men to the plate.

Rob Calabrese led off the inning with a double, followed by back-to-back walks to Jack Meggs and Mike Rizzitello, forcing the bases loaded with no outs.

Hunter Cullen notched a two-run double to give the Otters a 5-1 lead.

A sac fly from J.J. Gould scored Rizzitello, advancing Cullen to third, as the Otters scored their sixth run.

A wild pitch from Boomers reliever Michael McCraith allowed Cullen to touch home, as the Otters scored four runs in the inning, holding a 7-1 lead.

The Boomers would score another run in the top of the sixth on an RBI single from Dylan Jones, but that would be all the Boomers could tally offensively.

Austin Nicely earned his second win of the season, his first at Bosse Field. He had back-to-back quality starts, putting together a six-inning performance, allowing only two runs on two hits and throwing three strikeouts on Thursday night.

After winning his first game two weeks ago at Bosse Field, the Otters were able to rough up Boomers starter Matt Miller, who went three innings, surrendering three runs on three hits. He was handed the loss, his first in three starts.

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