The Elkhart 4
This is another case in which I saw a documentary on Amazon Prime. This one was called “1275 Days” and talked about the case of four young men who were charged with felony murder when they, and another accomplice, broke into an occupied home. The oldest of the five, twenty-one year old Danzele Johnson was shot and killed by the homeowner. Despite living in Indiana my entire life I really knew little about this case. One thing that I found interesting then, and now, is that the prosecutor in the case from 2013 is the current Attorney General of Indiana, Curtis Hill. Hill was elected in November of 2016 and his tenure as Attorney General has been a challenge for him, and the state. Some will likely argue this is because he is the first African American Attorney General in the state, however, seeing as Indiana is a Republican led state and Hill himself is a Republican it seems a bit hard to argue that point in my opinion. He has held that he is completely against the legaliza...