Maurice Frazier v. State of Indiana

OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge.

Case Summary

Former corrections officer Maurice Frazier appeals the sufficiency of evidence for his convictions of two counts of sexual battery committed while he was on duty at the Marion County Jail. A sexual-battery conviction requires the State to prove that a defendant, with intent to arouse or satisfy his sexual desires or the sexual desires of the victim, touched the victim when she was compelled to submit to the touching by force or the imminent threat of force. Here, Frazier grabbed the victim’s hand and placed it on his crotch, and we find that to be sufficient…