Ford v. State

HOFFMAN, Judge.

Clarence Ford appeals his conviction of official misconduct, a Class A misdemean- or, after a jury trial in the Lake County Superior Court, Criminal Division.

The facts, as taken most favorably to the verdict, are as follows:

In mid-November 1983, Clarence Ford, a uniformed patrol officer with the Police Department of the City of Gary, arrested and took into custody J.D. Collins and Newton Washington in the LR.C. liquor store parking lot in Gary after confiscating several marijuana cigarettes that Collins threw under Ford's police car. After taking Collins and Washington into…