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Thursday, February 05, 2009
Ind. Courts - "Logansport indecent exposure case dismissed again"
Kevin Lilly's report in the Pharos-Tribune begins:
For a second time, the Cass County prosecutor’s office had to dismiss a case against a Logansport man who allegedly “mooned” two children.Deputy prosecutor Jim Chovanec handled the case against 43-year-old William Elpers, who was charged with class C misdemeanor indecent exposure for allegedly showing his buttocks to two children last year. In a statement given Tuesday, Chovanec said the decision to drop the charge resulted from respecting the wishes of the children’s parents.
“The investigator talked to the children, who were scheduled to give a deposition before trial, and the father indicated that the parents did not want to put the children through any rigors of a trial,” Chovanec said.
Elpers was arrested on April 5 and initially set for a bench trial in September. The prosecution dropped the charge the first time on the day before trial because the children, the only witnesses, could not be found to testify.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 5, 2009 01:55 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts