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This Traveling Oral Argument will not be webcast live because it will not take place in the Court of Appeals Courtroom. Video of the event will become available within about one week after the hearing. See Oral Arguments Online for video.

On the night of February 7, 2020, Freida Starks and her cousin went to a Little Caesar’s restaurant in Indianapolis.  Starks’s ex-boyfriend, Daryl Coleman, and his new partner, Gina Watford, had the same idea and visited the same Little Caesar’s.  Starks and Watford approached the restaurant at the same time, at which point Starks attacked Watford.  After the fight was broken up, Starks went into the restaurant.  She returned minutes later holding a gun and fired in Watford’s direction, missing Watford’s person but striking her car instead.  On February 18, 2020, the State charged Starks with Level 6 felony criminal recklessness, Level 6 felony pointing a firearm, and Class A misdemeanor criminal mischief.  In August of 2020, a jury convicted Starks of the felonies, and the trial court sentenced her to 730 days, with 640 days suspended to probation, on both counts to be served concurrently.  Starks appealed, alleging that her convictions for pointing a firearm and criminal recklessness violate Indiana’s prohibition on double jeopardy as articulated in Wadle v. State, 151 N.E.3d 227, 239 (Ind. 2020).

The scheduled panelists are Judge Riley, Judge Bradford, and Judge Kenworthy.

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