Miller v. State

HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge.

On September 9, 1981, at about 8:00 P.M., Vernon Miller, a black Lake County special deputy, became involved in a confrontation with two white men, Bosko Trajkoski and Robert Belinsky, in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Merrillville, Indiana. The white men began using racial slurs, and Miller, after having advised them he was a police officer, drew his pistol and fired once into the air. Another black patron, Kenny Lewis, became involved in the argument, which turned into an altercation between Lewis and the two white men. While fighting, they worked…