Joshua Hopson v. State of Indiana

Vaidik, Chief Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Joshua Hopson appeals his conviction for resisting law enforcement by flight causing injury. He concedes that he fled and that the police officer who chased him slipped in a patch of mud and injured his knee, but he argues that the State failed to prove that he proximately caused the injury-in other words, that the injury was foreseeable. We disagree with Hopson and affirm his conviction.

Facts and Procedural History

[2] On May 11, 2017, a man called Indianapolis police to report that his daughter was trapped in an SUV by her boyfriend, later identified as…